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Roots of SN, Part 7: Was Archaic Greece Naturalistic?

July 10, 2014June 5, 2014 by B. T. Newberg

Other civilizations laid the crucial building blocks, but what made Greece so ripe for the rise of naturalism?

Categories Free Tags ancient Greece, Hesiod, Homer, naturalism, science and religion 1 Comment
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