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" ... poets. All the Greek religious poetry treating of death and the world beyond the grave refers to the deities whose influence was supposed to be exercised in the dark region at the centre of the earth, and who were thought to have little connexion... "
The Jonah Legend: A Suggestion of Interpretation - Page 61
by William Simpson - 1899 - 182 pages
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A History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, Volume 1

Karl Otfried Müller - Greek literature - 1840 - 546 pages
...not have been effected at once, but must have been produced by the efforts of many sages and poets. All the Greek religious poetry treating of death and...connexion with the political and social relations of hutmm life. These deities formed a class apart from the gods of Olympus, and were comprehended under...
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Ars Quatuor Coronatorum: Being the Transactions of the Quatuor ..., Volume 3

1840 - 288 pages
...called the " Giant's Grave," near Rutchestei', the ancient Vindobala. THE MYSTERIES OF DEMETER. — " All the Greek religious poetry treating of death and...of the earth, and who were thought to have little connection with the political and social relations of human life. These deities formed a class apart...
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A History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, Volume 1

Karl Otfried Müller - Greek literature - 1847 - 558 pages
...not have been effected at once, but must have been produced by the efforts of many sages atid poets. All the Greek religious poetry treating of death and...Olympus, and were comprehended under the name of the Chlhonian godsl- The mysteries of the Greeks were connected with the worship of these gods alone. That...
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History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates

Karl Otfried Müller - Greek literature - 1847 - 562 pages
...not have been effected at once, but must have been produced by the efforts of many saijes and poets. All the Greek religious poetry treating of death and...exercised in the dark region at the centre of the earth, ond who were thought to have little connexion with the political and social relations of human life....
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The Life and Travels of Herodotus in the Fifth Century: Before ..., Volume 2

James Talboys Wheeler - Historians - 1855 - 486 pages
...regards the Greek mysteries, we may remark that they were connected solely with the worship of those deities whose influence was supposed to be exercised...dark region at the centre of the earth, and who were thus thought to have but little connexion with human life, and only to exercise their gloomy powers...
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The Life and Travels of Herodotus in the Fifth Century: Before ..., Volume 2

James Talboys Wheeler - Historians - 1856 - 478 pages
...regards the Greek mysteries, we may remark that they were connected solely with the worship of those deities whose influence was supposed to be exercised in the dark region at the center of the earth, and who were thus thought to have but little connection with human life, and only...
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Vestiges of the Spirit-history of Man

Samuel Fales Dunlap - Religion - 1858 - 426 pages
...the SUN of heaven." * Between the time of Homer and Pindar a great change of opinion had taken place. All the Greek religious poetry treating of death and...exercised in the dark region at the centre of the earth. TJie Mysteries of the Greeks were connected with the worship of these gods alone. That the love of...
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A History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, Volume 1

Karl Otfried Müller, John William Donaldson - Byzantine literature - 1858 - 596 pages
...produced by the efforts of many sages and poets. All the Greek religious poetry treating of death aud the world beyond the grave refers to the deities whose...of the earth, and who were thought to have little counexion with the political and social relations of human life. These deities formed a class apart...
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Vestiges of the Spirit-history of Man

Samuel Fales Dunlap - Religion - 1858 - 448 pages
...the SCN of heaven." * Between the time of Homer and Pindar a great change of opinion had taken place. All the Greek religious poetry treating of death and...whose influence was supposed to be exercised in the da'fk region at the centre of the earth. The Mysteries of the Greeks were connected with the worship...
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Handbook of Universal Literature, from the Best and Latest Authorities

Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta - Literature - 1863 - 760 pages
...effected by the efforts of many sages and poets. All the Greek religious poetry, treating of death and of the world beyond the grave, refers to the deities...influence was supposed to be exercised in the dark regions at the centre of the earth, and who had little connection with the political and social relations...
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