Greek divination : a study of its methods and principles / by W.R. Halliday.
- William Reginald Halliday
- Date:
- 1913
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Greek divination : a study of its methods and principles / by W.R. Halliday. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![some respects, again, the Olympian worship was too formal and political for the ordinary man in ordinary times; their temples, which served as national treasuries, and their ritual, which provided the relaxation of a public holiday,^ were unable to satisfy his spiritual and personal aspirations. The reaction is as old as the popularity of Dionysos and the Mysteries; it reaches its highest and perhaps its lowest manifestations in the mysticism of Orphism and Neo - Platonism. The ritual of the Homeric trinity was unable to supply the religious needs of an essentially religious people,^ and there resulted a cast back to the vital beliefs of the Lower Culture, which were capable of development and re- interpretation. Some traces of this movement we shall discuss later in the relation of the wonder-workers of late antiquity to the seers of mythical tradition, and in the history of the popularity of Augury. Fruits of it were revivals such as that of the worship of Zeus Kouros preserved in the Palaikastro hymn.® ^ Thukydides ii. 38 and the complaint as to the number of these bank holidays, [Xen.] IIoX. 'Ad. iii. 2. ^ Even the position of Apollo as recognised by Plato in the Republic is based rather on sentiment and political tradition than on the personal ties which bind God and worshipper in the more intimate and spiritual religions. ® See Bosanquet, Murray, and Miss Harrison in B.S.A. xv.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2899467x_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
