Sadly, the adamant dogmatic reconstructionist thing is all too common these days among whatever remains of the neopagan scene. I chalk it up to the general lack of imagination that pervades our culture and the tendency for people educated backgrounds to put academics and academia up way too high on a pedestal.
When it comes to the focusing on one era thing you mention, it's kind of funny how the "religion" diehard reconstructionists want to copypaste into the present is always based on a static image of one particular time period. One would think this is more difficult to do with Hellenism since we have very clear historical records of many different stages and periods of Hellenic culture and civilization. I've noticed that the Hellenists who embrace Platonism tend to be less annoying about this though, as Platonism became big during the later Hellenistic period when syncretism was all the rage.
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Date: 2023-01-21 02:53 pm (UTC)When it comes to the focusing on one era thing you mention, it's kind of funny how the "religion" diehard reconstructionists want to copypaste into the present is always based on a static image of one particular time period. One would think this is more difficult to do with Hellenism since we have very clear historical records of many different stages and periods of Hellenic culture and civilization. I've noticed that the Hellenists who embrace Platonism tend to be less annoying about this though, as Platonism became big during the later Hellenistic period when syncretism was all the rage.