Religion in the Ancient Greek City

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Introduction : How should we Study greek Civic Religion The necessity of cultural estrangement ...........3 Some fundamental notions .............8 Sources of Evidence.............16 2. Cult - practices Rituals ....27 Religious personnel ...........46 Places of Cult .......55 Rites of Passages ........63 Settings of Passages ......80 Religion and political life ........92 The festival system : the athenian case .....102 The panhellenic cults ........112 3. Systems for representing the divine Myths and mythology ............143 A polytheistic Religion ............176 Forms of imaginative projection .........215 4. Envoi Concluding reflections ........231