CONTENTS

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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION[VII]
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION[XI]
PRELIMINARY NOTE TO THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH EDITION[XIII]
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE [XV]

PART I

CHAP.
I.BELIEFS ABOUT THE SOUL AND CULT OF SOULSIN THE HOMERIC POEMS[3]
II.ISLANDS OF THE BLEST. Translation[55]
III.CAVE DEITIES. SUBTERRANEANTranslation[88]
IV.HEROES[115]
V.THE CULTOF SOULS[156]
I.Cult of Chthonic Deities[158]
II.Funeral ceremonies and worship of the dead[162]
III.Traces of the Cult of Souls in the Blood Feud andSatisfaction for murder[174]
VI.THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES[217]
VII.IDEAS OF THE FUTURE LIFE[236]

PART II

VIII.ORIGINS OF THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY. THE THRACIAN WORSHIPOF DIONYSOS[253]
IX.DIONYSIAC RELIGION IN GREECE. ITS AMALGAMATION WITH APOLLINE RELIGION. ECSTATIC PROPHECY. RITUAL PURIFICATION AND EXORCISM. ASCETICISM[282]
X.THE ORPHICS[335]
XI.THE PHILOSOPHERS[362]
XII.THE LAY AUTHORS (LYRIC POETS—PINDAR—THE TRAGEDIANS)[411]

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XIII.PLATO[463]
XIV.THE LATER AGE OF THE GREEK WORLD[490]
I.Philosophy[490]
II.Popular Belief[524]

APPENDIX

I.Consecration of persons struck by lightning[581]
II.μασχαλισμός[582]
III.ἀμύητοι, ἄγαμοι, Danaids in the lower world[586]
IV.The Tetralogies of Antiphon[588]
V.Ritual Purification[588]
VI.Hekate and the Ἑκατικὰ φάσματα[590]
VII.The Hosts of Hekate[593]
VIII.Disintegration of Consciousness and Reduplication ofPersonality[595]
IX.The Great Orphic Theogony[596]
X.Previous Lives of Pythagoras. His Descent to Hades[598]
XI.Initiation considered as Adoption by the god[601]
XII.Magical Exorcisms of the Dead[603]
[INDEX][607]
[Transcriber’s Note and Extended List of Abbreviations][end]