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Greek Religion: Roman Empire
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Although it has not always been explicitly mentioned in this context, every country has its own culture which naturally influences the image of Greek religion that it produces. These images may range from a more romantic approach (the Germans), via a more philosophical (the French), to a more common-sensical (the English). The present survey, written by a Dutchman, is deliberately eclectic, but other students of Greek religion will surely unmask this pretension.
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The Greek world in the fourth century : from the fall of the Athenian Empire to the successors of Alexander / edited by Lawrence A. Tritle. London ; New York : Routledge, 1997. Call #= DF231 .G74 1997
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In the Greek city-states, cults centering around the worship of a particular god developed very early. Some were local in scope, but after Greece was absorbed into the Roman Empire many of these cults spread throughout the Mediterranean world and attracted large followings.
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In common parlance the stories of the Greek and Roman deities and heroes are indiscriminately referred to as myths and legends. If we wish to be more careful... we can differentiate between the two types of story, and between them and folktales and fairy tales, although a story may shift between these different categories, or may contain elements from each of them.
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