. A history of Greece for junior classes . COIN OF 8ACEIFICB OF A BULL. CHAPTER II. STATE OF CIVILISATION DURING THE HEROIC AGE. As the Trojan war and its immediate consequences formthe close of the heroic age, it will be of interest to cast aglance at the state of civilisation dm-ing that period, sofar as it is revealed to us in the poems of the Iliad andOdyssey, the earliest productions of European of the most characteristic features of the heroicage is the peculiar relation between gods and men. Thegods were believed to dwell on Mount Olympus in thenorth-east of The
. A history of Greece for junior classes . COIN OF 8ACEIFICB OF A BULL. CHAPTER II. STATE OF CIVILISATION DURING THE HEROIC AGE. As the Trojan war and its immediate consequences formthe close of the heroic age, it will be of interest to cast aglance at the state of civilisation dm-ing that period, sofar as it is revealed to us in the poems of the Iliad andOdyssey, the earliest productions of European of the most characteristic features of the heroicage is the peculiar relation between gods and men. Thegods were believed to dwell on Mount Olympus in thenorth-east of Thessaly; thence they often descended,mingled among mortal men, took an active part in theiraffairs, and in times of war some always sided with theone party, and others with the other. When they ap-peared among men, they usually assumed the form ofsome moi-tal, and but rarely showed themselves in alltheir majesty as gods, because it would have been over-powering to the weak senses of men. But still they wereeverywhere conceived as beings of the human form, b
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