Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Pausanias Description of Greece, Vol. 1 of 6
It will be seen that most' of the sights noted by Pausanias had religious associations. Indeed, in the eyes of a Greek, everything that he could not ex plain, everything that puzzled or awed him, was of divine origin, and in those early and pre-scientific days the realm of the unexplained was a large one. A Greek instinctively personified the forces, powers and processes of nature, both of the animate and of the inanimate world, and this personification nearly always resulted in assigning to these aspects of nature human forms endowed with divine and miraculous characteristics, that is, in the creation of anthropomorphic gods and goddesses.
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