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 Communion with gods, philosophers' views of, 296

Conquering and conquered races, relations of, 244

Conservatism, religious, 95, 295, 337

'Constantine and Areté' (ballad), 391 f.

Continuity of Greek life and thought, 552

Convention, literary, 429

Corpse, re-animation of, 112 (see Re-animation, Resuscitation)

Corycian cave, 161

Courage of Greeks, 28

Cremation (see also Funeral-rites), 485 ff.; ceremonial, 496, 512; ceremonial substitute for, 491; Christian attitude towards, 501; combined with inhumation, 494; disuse of, 501 f.; for disposing of revenants in Ancient Greece, 416; for disposing of vrykolakes, 411; in theory preferable to inhumation, 488 f.; in recent times, 503; introduced by Achaeans, 491; motives for, 502 f.; preferred to inhumation, 500 f.; revival of, 502; serving same religious end as inhumation, 491 ff.

Crockery broken at funerals, 520

Crow, 309; exception to ordinary rules of divination, 310

Curses, 387 ff., 409; diagnosed by their effects, 396; executed by demonic agents, 448; fixity of, 417; in Euripides, 418; in Sophocles, 419; operation of, 447; parental, 391 ff.; revoking of, 388 f.

Custom-dues, for passage of soul to other world, 285

Customs-officers, celestial, 284

Cybele, rites of, 586

Daemons, Plutarch's theory of, 583 f.

Danaids, as types of unmarried women, 592

Dances, 34

Dead, messages to the, 345; worship of the, 529 note 1

Dead persons, as messengers to the other world, 344 ff.; what kinds of food presented to, 533 f.

Deadly sins, 425 ff.

Death, as penalty for bloodguilt, 455; conceived as a form of marriage, by Sophocles, 549 ff.; conceived as a form of marriage, in modern dirges, 546 ff.; conceived as a wedding with Persephone, 595; how personified in the Alcestis, 115; in correlation with marriage, 553; represented as a wedding on sepulchral monuments, 597 f.; sudden or violent, 408, 427

Death-struggle, 288, 289; how eased, 389

Decomposition (see Dissolution)

Degeneracy of mankind, 294

Deities, gregarious or solitary, 70; non-Christian, how denoted, 67; pagan, local names for, 69

'Delivering unto Satan,' 406

Demeter (see also Mysteries of Demeter), 79-98; and Poseidon, modern story of, 86; as corn-goddess, 562; character of, 92; Cretan legend of, 579; displaced by S. Demetrius, 44; dwelling-place of, 92; evidence for identity of, 92; her priestesses officiating at weddings, 590; horse-headed, 87, 252; in Homer, 522; in modern story, 54; modern functions of, 93; modern titles of, 89; modern worship of her statue, 80; mysteries of (see Mysteries); represented by S. Demetrius, 79; stories of her union with men, 579 f.; story of, compared with story of Christ, 576; where originally domiciled, 93-96

Demeter and Persephone, modern legend of, 80; symbolism of myth concerning, 88; unity of, 88

Demetrius Poliorcetes, story of, 587

Demons, exorcism of, 68

Despoina, 579; marriage with, 596

Deucalion, 93

Devils, entering bodies of dead men, 416; exorcism of, 68

Devil, responsible for resuscitation of dead persons, 402

'Diana,' 164

Dionysus, and Prosymnus, story of, 585; displaced by S. Dionysius, 43; festivals of, 228-230; identified with Adonis, 599; identified with Hades, 585, 599; in scenes on sepulchral monuments, 598 f.; marriage of the 'queen' with, 583; mystic rites of, 582

Dioscuri, 286

Dipylon-cemetery, excavations in, 494

Dirges, 347; character of modern, 549; examples of modern, 546 ff.; purpose of, 519, 549

Diseases, caused by demons, 22

Dishonesty of Greeks, 31

Disintegration (see Dissolution)

Dissolution, and absolution, 401; best secured by cremation, 502; desire for, a feature of Pelasgian religion, 524; distinguished from annihilation, 525, 538; time required for, 486 ff.; summary of ancient views concerning, 526; why desired, 515 ff.

Divination, at weddings, 326; by chance words, 303 ff.; by lot, 303; by sacrifice, 264, 318; 'domestic,' 327; from birds (see also Auspices), 308 ff.; from breast-*bone of fowl, 327; from chance words,