Five stages of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray
" Many persons who are quite prepared to admit the importance to the world of Greek poetry, Greek art, and Greek philosophy may still feel it rafter a paradox to be told that Greek religion specially repays out study at the present day." This is the claim that Gilbert Murray makes at the outset of Five Stages Religion, and which he brilliantly fulfills in this description of the cried phased of religious thought among the ancient Greeks.