Greek religion scholarship

Jon Mikalson

The relationship between the gods and worshippers is like the honour which a subject owes his king.

Robert parker

A god with an epithet was just one aspect of a god but each part needed addressing as if they were separate

Fritz Graf

you cannot sort the fictional from the real stories of healing cults, what matters is the limitless faith the ancient Greeks had in the power of the gods

Jon Mikalson - family deities

'The state was recognising nationally the importance of these family deities.'

Louise Bruit Zaidman

Religion impregnated all civic activities

chaniotis

'Magistrates sometimes conducted religious activities without the assistance of priests. It was less common for a public priest to perform rituals without the presence of secular authorities.'

Tor

Xenophanes rejects traditional concepts of the divine and replaces them with his own notion of divinity

Herman

Socrates’ questioning of common concepts forms part of a wider trend of traditional beliefs being questioned

Robert parker -oracles

"one normally consulted an oracle when faced with an important decision, not as a way of peeling back the veil from the future"

Kindt

Personal religion coexisted with other manifestations of the religious including those of Polis religion

Gunnel Ekroth

a hero is a person who has lived and died, is worshiped on a more official level than just family, and is connected with one specific location

wikkiser

the Athenian asclepion was introduced as a stategic move to improve relations with Epidurus to oppose Sparta

Louise bruit Zaidman

religion impregnated every aspect of Greek civic life

Detienne

The sacrifice was killing for eating, especially feeding the people of the city which may otherwise not have much meat in their diet

Mary Emerson

The buildings of the Acropolis can be seen to celebrate Athens and to give glory to Athena.

Robin Osborne

women are treated differently from men in a number of ways even in the case of cults from which they are not expressly excluded.

Fred Naiden

The sacrifice served to maintain the relationship between mortals and the gods