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Franz Cumont was one of the preeminent classical scholars of his day, and his investigations into the history of religion had a dramatic impact upon the fields of archaeology, comparative mythology, and anthropology.
This 1912 volume collects the influential series of lectures he delivered across the United States highlighting one aspect of his groundbreaking studies of ancient worship: the reverence of the stars.
He discusses... * the origins of astrology in ancient Babylonia * why ancient scientists believed the stars were divine * how astrology influenced Greek and Roman paganism * astrology as the official religion of the Roman Empire * and more... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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During the period of the French Revolution citizen Dupuis, in three bulky volumes "On the Origin of all Forms of Worship" (1794), developed the idea that the primary source of religion was the spectacle of celestial phenomena and the ascertainment of their correspondence with earthly events, and he undertook to show that the myths of all peoples and all times were nothing but a set of astronomical combinations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sidereal theology, sidereal gods, sidereal religion, divine stars, learned theology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Vettius Valens, Asia Minor, Most High, Philip of Opus, Philo the Jew New!
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During the period of the French Revolution citizen Dupuis, in three bulky volumes "On the Origin of all Forms of Worship" (1794), developed the idea that the primary source of religion was the spectacle of celestial phenomena and the ascertainment of their correspondence with earthly events, and he undertook to show that the myths of all peoples and all times were nothing but a set of astronomical combinations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sidereal theology, sidereal gods, sidereal religion, divine stars, learned theology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Vettius Valens, Asia Minor, Most High, Philip of Opus, Philo the Jew New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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