GR Scholars

Allan

The gods are not portrayed as being amoral, but instead offer divine justice’

Mikalson

The state was recognising the importance of these family deities’’

Bruit-Zaidman

– ‘’Religion did more than just put a divine gloss on civic life. It impregnated each and every civic activity’

Burkert

’An anthropological approach, in which the shared aggression of the sacrificial killing actually led to the founding of a community and therewith civilisation’

Vernant

The sacrifice was killing for eating, especially feeding the people of a city which may

otherwise have not much meat in their diet’’

Naiden

Sacrifice served to maintain and stabilise the relationship between mortals and gods

Herrmann

– ‘’Socrates’ questioning of common concepts displayed in Plato’s dialogues thus forms part of a wider trend which had called traditional beliefs and traditional belief into question’’