Classics scholars

Hofmann

Ergot evoked a deep sense of sorrow and melancholy, allowing participants to sympathise with Demeter

Graham

Votive offerings encouraged the gods to act

Griffin

Gods are impressive and deserving of worship

Zaidman

Festivals are inseparable from Greek civic life

Sourvinou-Inwood

Majority of worship was ritualistic not spiritual, however it was not solely a group religion

Kindt

Types of worship was a spectrum of private and public

Dillon

Priests for gods, priestesses for goddesses, though there were certain exceptions

McClure

Men and women worshipped different gods

Burkert

Killing creates community

Dettiene and Vernant

Feeding the community

Naiden

Builds the relationship between the mortals and gods

Bell

Rituals defined social power and relations e.g women's lack of presence

Tor

Xenophanes rejects traditional theological beliefs and replaces them with his own

Herrman

Socrates' beliefs questioned traditional beliefs

Kelly

They performed religious and political purposes

Scott

Delphi was a unifying space

Scott decor

the bigger, the bolder, the better

Scott sanctuaries

Sanctuaries would be packed and super busy

Velentza

Friezes justified Athenian warfare

Hadingham

Parthenon expressed Athens's burgeoning democracy