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A.W.H. Adkins
Edward Olson Professor of Greek, of Philosophy, and of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, University of Chicago. Author of Merit and Responsibility: A Study in Ancient Greek Values and...
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John Richard Thornhill Pollard
Former Senior Lecturer in Classics, University College of North Wales, University of Wales, Bangor. Author of Birds in Greek Life and Myth; Helen of Troy; and others.
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Greek religion, religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Hellenes. Greek religion is not the same as Greek mythology, which is concerned with traditional tales, though the two are closely interlinked. Curiously, for a people so religiously minded, the Greeks had no word for religion itself; the nearest terms were eusebeia (“piety”) and threskeia (“cult”). Although its origins may be traced to the remotest eras, Greek religion in its developed form lasted more than a thousand years, from the time of Homer (probably 9th or 8th century bce) to the reign of the emperor Julian (4th century ce). During that ...(100 of 5119 words)

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