Religion and Art in Ancient Greece Greek History Greek religion may
be studied under various aspects; and many recent contributions to
this study have been mainly concerned either with the remote origin
of many of its ceremonies in primitive ritual, or with the manner
in which some of its obscurer manifestations met the deeper
spiritual needs which did not find satisfaction in the official
cults. Such discussions are of the highest interest to the
anthropologist and to the psychologist; but they have the
disadvantage of fixing our attention too exclusively on what, to
the ordinary Greek, appeared accidental or even morbid, and of
making us regard the Olympian pantheon, with its clearly realised
figures of the gods, as a mere system imposed more or less from
outside upon the old rites and beliefs of the people. In the
province of art, at least, the Olympian gods are paramount; and
thus we are led to appreciate and to understand their worship as it
affected the religious ideals of the people and the services of the
State. For we must remember that in the case of religion even more
than in that of art, its essential character and its influence upon
life and thought lie rather in its full perfection than in its
origin.
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