{"id":338,"date":"2004-12-21T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2004-12-21T21:03:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-21T21:03:00","slug":"338","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

“The gods return to Olympus”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thus the title of an article in the January\/February 2005 issue of Archaeology<\/em> magazine on Greeks re-creating their ancient religion. An abstract is available here<\/a>, but to my mind it leaves out a key quote, from reconstructionist leader Tryphon Olympios, who left the country for political reasons during the junta years of the 1970s and taught philosophy at Stockholm University:
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We argue that Christian ethics, based on apocalyptic truth, are incompatible with Greek ethics, based on philosophical, scientific knowledge, a product of rationalism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No mystoi<\/em> here then? A documentary film about the reconstructionists, I Still Worship Zeus<\/em>, is supposed to be available, and I am looking for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The gods return to Olympus” Thus the title of an article in the January\/February 2005 issue of Archaeology magazine on Greeks re-creating their ancient religion. 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