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This week’s list includes Five Stages of Greek Religion, from Gilbert Murray. Press play and stay for every chapter.

Beginning with Greece’s earliest rites, this volume traces the development of the classic religion of the Olympian gods and discusses the religion of the philosophic schools of the fourth century BC. It portrays the emergence of Christianity and concludes with an account of the efforts of Julian the Apostate to restore a new variety of paganism.n

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