Afterglow: Pastels of Greek Egypt, 69 B. C (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Mitchell S. Buck

9780483036642: Afterglow: Pastels of Greek Egypt, 69 B. C (Classic Reprint)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0483036641 ISBN 13: 9780483036642

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Excerpt from Afterglow: Pastels of Greek Egypt, 69 B. C

LL words are more or less mis A construed and misunderstood; none more grievously than the word Pagan ism. Paganism is conceived generally to be that state of the ancient world, Greek and Roman, but chiefly Greek, in which men lived in a kind of Abbey of Thelema, doing what they would, satisfying the flesh according to their desires, devoid of morals altogether, using the word morals in its customary modern sense. Insensibly, when anyone speaks of Paganism, one thinks of garlands and dances, of the Bacchic fury, of the breasts of the nymph in the brake, of the Satyrs lurking in the grove of dark ilexes. You could do as you pleased; there was no law to restrain you, from within or from without. As for the gods, they were but pleasing fictions, invented by the poets.

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