Themis - A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion #222039

So swift has been the advance in science or rather in historical imagination, so complete the shift of standpoint, that it has become' difficult to conceive that, in 1903, any such protest was needed. Since the appearance of Professor Murray's Rise of the Greek Epic we realize how late and how enlightened was the com promise represented by these Olympians. We can even picture to ourselves the process by which their divinity was shorn of each and every 'mystical or monstrous' attribute.