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Full Idea
The Greeks lack a normative theology: everyone has the right to deal with it in a poetic manner and he can believe whatever he wants.
Gist of Idea
The Greeks lack a normative theology: each person has their own poetic view of things
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1872-74 [1873], 19 [110])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Unpublished of 'Unfashionable Obs' period (v 11)', ed/tr. Gray,Richard T. [Stanford 1995], p.38
A Reaction
There is quite a lot of record of harshness towards atheists, and the trial of Socrates seems to have been partly over theology. However, no proper theological texts have come down, or records of the teachings of the priests.