Greek Religion modern scolarship

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    • personal experience
      • Edelstein
        • [Healing Cults] This experience... Provided the most convincing evidence for the belief in gods
      • Mylonas
        • Their revelation was the most important part of the celebration
      • Kindt
        • Greeks didn't have corresponding words for public and private
    • Olympians
      • Griffin
        • Really impressive gods
      • Mikalson
        • Relationship was based on honour rather than love
      • Kirk
        • all sorts of not heroic qualities are allowed to enter the lives of the gods'
    • society
      • Burkert
        • For women, the Thesmophoria represents one the opportunity to leave the family and home, not only all day but all night
        • United through religion
      • Neils
        • The very route chosen for the Panathenaic procession shows that the presentation was the most public and civic of rituals
        • [amphora] these transportable civic symbols publicised Athens as powerful, divinely favoured and wealthy
      • Zaidman
        • Inseparability of festivals from the very definition of Greek civic life
      • Scott
        • It was no longer principally a religious association: it has usurped the role for political congress
    • places of worship
      • Rhodes
        • The most sacred buildings of the Acropolis are the temples
        • [Pericles' building programme] It represents the resurrection of Athens' religious heart from the ashes of war
      • Roberts
        • This relationship was symbolised by the peplos
      • Scott
        • Ash altar... Defines the sanctuary's Panhellenic religious character
    • rituals and priests
      • Naiden
        • Sacrifice served to maintain and stabilise the relationship
      • Scott
        • the Pythia priestesses have taken the secrets of that process to the grave
      • Burkert
        • The shared aggression of a sacrificial killing actually led to the founding of a community
    • philosophy
      • Aston
        • Homer was a powerful source of cohesion when it came to religion and ideas about the gods
      • Herrmann
        • Socrates' questioning of common concepts shown in Plato's dialogues forms the trend which questions traditional beliefs

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