In lectures delivered at Oxford, the classical scholar Farnell asks how far early Greek religion owed anything to Babylonia and Assyria. He compares the forms of their gods, the great mother-goddess of Crete and Asia Minor, deities of nature and of society, ritual purity, ideas of sin and morality, and the place of prayer, magic and divination in each tradition.
A careful early study in comparative religion, still useful for readers of ancient myth. Download the free EPUB.