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Book Excerpt: ock's edition (Cambridge 1926) has admirably filled this gap.CONTENTSPAGE I. SATURNIA REGNA 1II. THE OLYMPIAN CONQUEST 39III. THE GREAT SCHOOLS 79IV. THE FAILURE OF NERVE 123V. THE LAST PROTEST 173APPENDIX: TRANSLATION OF THE TREATISE OF SALLUSTIUS, +peri Theôn kai Kosmou+ 200INDEX 227+O prôtos anthrôpos ek gês, choikos; ho deuteros anthrôpos ho Kyrios ex ouranou.+"The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven."ISATURNIA REGNAMany persons who are quite prepared to admit the importance to the world of Greek poetry, Greek art, and Greek philosophy, may still feel it rather a paradox to be told that Greek religion specially repays our study at the present day. Greek religion, associated with a romantic, trivial, and not very edifying mythology, has generally seemed one of the weakest spots in the armour of those giants of the old worlRead More
