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Hellenic Polytheism: Household Worship (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.39 — 381 ratings — published 2014
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as hellenism)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,217,754 ratings — published -800
Kharis: Hellenic Polytheism Explored (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.39 — 140 ratings — published 2004
Komos: Celebrating Festivals in Contemporary Hellenic Polytheism (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.27 — 30 ratings — published 2015
Hellenismos: Practicing Greek Polytheism Today (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.15 — 205 ratings — published 2014
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as hellenism)
avg rating 3.93 — 520,579 ratings — published -800
The Orphic Hymns (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.38 — 474 ratings — published 300
Greek Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.25 — 724 ratings — published 1977
Homeric Hymns (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,713 ratings — published -699
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as hellenism)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,806 ratings — published -700
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as hellenism)
avg rating 3.88 — 145,798 ratings — published -19
The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation: Including the Demotic Spells: Texts (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.42 — 286 ratings — published 400
The Library of Greek Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as hellenism)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,530 ratings — published 200
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,073,637 ratings — published 2011
The Oracles of Apollo: Practical Ancient Greek Divination for Today (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.26 — 47 ratings — published
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,397,830 ratings — published 2018
Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.25 — 75 ratings — published 1991
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.00 — 61,916 ratings — published -350
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as hellenism)
avg rating 3.97 — 229,280 ratings — published -400
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as hellenism)
avg rating 3.69 — 180,295 ratings — published -441
A Beginner's Guide to Hellenismos (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hellenism)
avg rating 3.92 — 37 ratings — published 2007
Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition (Greek Culture in the Roman World)
by (shelved 3 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.27 — 37 ratings — published 2007
Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hellenism)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,719 ratings — published 2023
Stone Blind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hellenism)
avg rating 3.78 — 80,841 ratings — published 2022
Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hellenism)
avg rating 3.71 — 127 ratings — published 1998
Daughters of Sparta (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hellenism)
avg rating 3.86 — 17,065 ratings — published 2021
The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as hellenism)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,001 ratings — published 2021
Understanding Greek Religion (Understanding the Ancient World)
by (shelved 3 times as hellenism)
avg rating 3.80 — 10 ratings — published 2013
Athenian Popular Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.17 — 23 ratings — published 1983
Old Stones, New Temples (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.49 — 39 ratings — published 2000
Hellenic Polytheism: A Personal Guide for Ancient Greek Practitioners (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.05 — 21 ratings — published
Magic in the Ancient Greek World (Blackwell Ancient Religions)
by (shelved 3 times as hellenism)
avg rating 3.72 — 53 ratings — published 2008
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.04 — 94,299 ratings — published 2019
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hellenism)
avg rating 3.89 — 116,133 ratings — published 2018
Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.17 — 111 ratings — published 2007
Mythology (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 60,603 ratings — published 1942
The Gods of the Greeks (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.11 — 604 ratings — published 1951
Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hellenism)
avg rating 3.78 — 93 ratings — published -800
The Nature of the Gods (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hellenism)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,222 ratings — published -45
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.28 — 364,047 ratings — published 180
The Symposium (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 92,560 ratings — published -380
Hekate Liminal Rites: A Study of the rituals, magic and symbols of the torch-bearing Triple Goddess of the Crossroads (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.24 — 963 ratings — published 2009
The Nag Hammadi Library (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,929 ratings — published 400
Ancient Greek Religion: A Sourcebook (Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History)
by (shelved 2 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.00 — 17 ratings — published 2009
The Iliad (Classics Illustrated)
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avg rating 3.85 — 4,373 ratings — published
Secrets of Greek Mysticism: A Modern Guide to Daily Practice with the Greek Gods and Goddesses (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.13 — 75 ratings — published
Circle for Hekate - Volume I: History & Mythology (The Circle for Hekate Project Book 1)
by (shelved 2 times as hellenism)
avg rating 4.56 — 245 ratings — published 2017
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hellenism)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,166 ratings — published -335
The Greek Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hellenism)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,709 ratings — published 1930
“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. It's not a coincidence that Omar Khayyam, rebuking and ridiculing the stone-faced Iranian mullahs of his time, pointed to the value of the grape as a mockery of their joyless and sterile regime. Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
“One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue to suffer? My grandmother Dodo thought it was because the goyim were jealous. The seder for Passover (which is a shame-faced simulacrum of a Hellenic question-and-answer session, even including the wine) tells the children that it's one of those things that happens to every Jewish generation. After the Shoah or Endlösung or Holocaust, many rabbis tried to tell the survivors that the immolation had been a punishment for 'exile,' or for insufficient attention to the Covenant. This explanation was something of a flop with those whose parents or children had been the raw material for the 'proof,' so for a time the professional interpreters of god's will went decently quiet. This interval of ambivalence lasted until the war of 1967, when it was announced that the divine purpose could be discerned after all. How wrong, how foolish, to have announced its discovery prematurely! The exile and the Shoah could now both be understood, as part of a heavenly if somewhat roundabout scheme to recover the Western Wall in Jerusalem and other pieces of biblically mandated real estate.
I regard it as a matter of self-respect to spit in public on rationalizations of this kind. (They are almost as repellent, in their combination of arrogance, masochism, and affected false modesty, as Edith Stein's 'offer' of her life to expiate the regrettable unbelief in Jesus of her former fellow Jews.) The sage Jews are those who have put religion behind them and become in so many societies the leaven of the secular and the atheist.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
I regard it as a matter of self-respect to spit in public on rationalizations of this kind. (They are almost as repellent, in their combination of arrogance, masochism, and affected false modesty, as Edith Stein's 'offer' of her life to expiate the regrettable unbelief in Jesus of her former fellow Jews.) The sage Jews are those who have put religion behind them and become in so many societies the leaven of the secular and the atheist.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
