Single Idea 14864

[catalogued under 29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 2. Greek Polytheism]

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Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1872-74 [1873], 19 [110])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 Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Unpublished of 'Unfashionable Obs' period (v 11)', ed/tr.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.