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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 233

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ar and for three days offer sacrifices at the shrine. Living for ever on Olympus....Then it was indeed to Zeus, under this so thin disguise, that the people of southernAlbania still paid their homage. Id. ib. p. 283 All I could feel as I halted finallybeneath the shadow of the shrine was a… … Fig. 913. yards had centred the reverence of tens of thousands of men peopling a score of centuries.Yet they had left nothing behind to see. Just a sacrificial stone. And four bare walls.Unroofed. Partially breached on one side. The home of Zeus: the Zeus who had neverdied for the people of this…

Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature

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