Religions of the Ancient Greeks

This is a book about the religious life of the Greeks from archaic times to thefifth century AD looked at in the context of a variety of different cities andper... » 

This is a book about the religious life of the Greeks from archaic times to thefifth century AD looked at in the context of a variety of different cities andperiods. Simon Price examines local practices and ideas in the light of generalGreek ideas relating them to gender roles for example political life Attictragedy and the trial of Socrates. He lays emphasis on the reactions to Greekreligions of ancient thinkers Greek Roman and Christian. The evidence drawnon is of all kinds literary inscriptional and archaeological. «