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To an unknown god

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Phraseologism: Unknown god.

Meaning: About extreme superstition, servility, confession of various religions.

Origin: An expression from the Acts of the Apostles, 17:23. The Apostle Paul, addressing the inhabitants of Athens, said: “In everything I see that you are, as it were, especially pious. Although that Athenian altar has not been found, similar altars have been found in other parts of Greece. For example, the Greek geographer of the 1nd century, Pausanias, mentioned altars to "unknown gods" in Faliron, not far from Athens ("Description of Hellas", Attica 4, 8). According to the same work, in Olympia there was "an altar to unknown gods" (Elis I, XIV, 170). In his work "The Life of Apollonius of Tyana" (VI, III), the Greek writer Philostratus (circa 245-1.110) mentioned that altars were erected in Athens even to unknown gods. And in the essay "On the Life of the Philosophers" (200), Diogenes Laertius (about 250-XNUMX) wrote that "nameless altars" could be seen in different parts of Athens. The Romans also built altars to unknown deities. The photo shows such an altar dating from the XNUMXst or XNUMXnd century BC. e., which is preserved in the Roman Museum Antiquarium Palatina. An inscription in Latin says that this altar was dedicated to "some god or goddess" - these words "are often found in prayers, as well as in literary works and inscriptions on objects dedicated to someone."

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