Werner Jaeger, "The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers" Oxford University Press 1948 ISBN: 000WW4LCY 1592443214

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267 pag

The new and revolutionizing ideas which the early Greek thinkers developed about the nature of the universe had a direct impact upon their conception of what th ey called, in a new sense, 'God' or 'the Divine.' The history of the philosophic al theology of the Greeks is thus the history of their rational approach to the nature of reality itself in its successive phases. The late Professor Jaeger's c lassic book traces this development from the first intimations in Hesiod of the theology that was to come, through the heroic age of Greek cosmological thought, down to the time of the Sophists of the fifth century B.C. Reviews: A Fantastic History of Greek Thought: While modern authors tend to focus on the Orphic cults of the Greeks in order to explain their attachment to theology, Jaeger (nearly 50 years dead) does an exc ellent job of tracing the lineage of Greek theology, the "approach of God through Logos," as the father of their later philosophical syst ems. He examines this early period of speculative philosophy and reductive reaso ning with absolute ease, illuminating complex (and often historiographical) argu ments with plain and concise language. The book, a collection of lectures given a narrative form by the author, is just about the best study on the subject history has yet to offer. It makes a good c ompanion to his seminal three volume series on Greek paideia as well as to his later work, "Early Christianity and Greek Paideia," wh ich was also derived from his Gifford Lectures. A quick note to casual students, however: the book was written in the 1940's, wh en classical scholars presupposed a knowledge of Greek amongst their readers. As a result, the work is peppered with ancient Greek. If you're not familiar with the Greek alphabet, you may want to have a Greek-English dictionary handy. Those with even a casual knowledge of Greek phonetics should do just fine.