Ancient Greek religion
197Rational and Religious
1 Jul 2024
15:03¶ 46
“I was thinking of our discussion the last few episodes of just how thoroughly religious the Greek culture was, starting out with ancestor worship…”
15:31¶ 47
“I think if we were more consistent with what that culture were doing, these men in their naturalism as they’re called nowadays, we’re really…”
15:59¶ 48
“They’re going back to those elements because they see power in what they would call something divine in them, which is what their whole…”
196Greek Life
17 Jun 2024
20:24¶ 59
“Yes, oddly enough. So these things they adopted, and the fertility of the land became very important. But as these cities had their own…”
21:03¶ 66
“There you go. So it took time for these city-states to say, “All right, we all have a king of the gods and he’s…”
21:25¶ 70
“But where do you go next? Does he have a spouse? A lot of the other cool kids on the block have spouses for…”
195From Marathon and On
3 Jun 2024
36:20¶ 112
“I remember how you learn about the covenant and the structure of the covenant and biblical theology and this and that, and then you…”
35:46¶ 111
“Yes, we should be wrapping up. It’s just a thought that the ancient world is so different from today’s world that we can look…”
17:19¶ 53
“The Oracle was an oracle of Apollo. He revealed himself to a particular priestess, who under the influence of certain fumes from the earth…”
15The Babylon Project
12 Apr 2020
43:08¶ 137
“Now that you mention that, this is similar to the idea of karma in Hindu theology. I came across the same thing when I…”
43:39¶ 138
“The universe was displeased at them for having assumed individuality for a little while, and they could not sustain it. There was also a…”
14:31¶ 48
“They may acknowledge a belief in totems and amulets, particularly in the primitive tribes in what were third-world countries, but our ancestors – particularly…”