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Review: Greek Religion by Walter Burkert

Nature and the Nation

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The Role of the Sexes in Polytheistic Society

Even what we understand as morality to be might be different in a polytheistic or a monotheistic society. So anyway, i'm moving on from that to this section here. Again, i believe, from chapter fives, a lot of good stuff. In the central part of the parthenon frieze, the bearded arectheus priest hands over the paplos to a boy. The priestess of athena turns to two girls carrying stools. Harmadios became a tyrannicide because his sister had been refused the role of basket bearer at the panthenaea festival.

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