Greek Religion – Archaic and Classical

Introduction.
<p>A Survey of Scholarship.</p>
<p>The Sources.</p>
<p>The Scope of the Study.</p>
<p>Part I: Prehistory and the Minoan–Mycenaean Age.</p>
<p>2. The Neolithic and Early Bronze Age.</p>
<p>3. Indo–European.</p>
<p>4. The Minoan–Mycenaean Religion.</p>
<p>5. The Dark Ages and the Problem of Continuity.</p>
<p>Part II: Ritual and Sanctuary.</p>
<p>6. Working Sacred Things: Animal Sacrifice.</p>
<p>7. Gift Offerings and Libation.</p>
<p>8. Prayer.</p>
<p>9. Purification.</p>
<p>10. The Sanctuary.</p>
<p>11. Priests.</p>
<p>12. The Festival.</p>
<p>13. Ecstasy and Divination.</p>
<p>Part III: The Gods.</p>
<p>14. The Spell of Homer.</p>
<p>15. Individual Gods.</p>
<p>16. The Remainder of the Pantheon.</p>
<p>17. The Special Character of Greek Anthropomorphism.</p>
<p>Part IV: The Dead, Heroes, and Chthonic Gods.</p>
<p>18. Burial and the Cult of the Dead.</p>
<p>19. Afterlife Mythology.</p>
<p>20. Olympian and Chthonic.</p>
<p>21. The Heroes.</p>
<p>22. Figures Who Cross the Chthonic–Olympian Boundary.</p>
<p>Part V: Polis and Polytheism.</p>
<p>23. Thought Patterns in Greek Polytheism.</p>
<p>24. The Rhythm of the Festivals.</p>
<p>25. Social Functions of Cult.</p>
<p>26. Piety in the Mirror of Greek Language.</p>
<p>Part VI: Mysteries and Asceticism.</p>
<p>27. Mystery Sanctuaries.</p>
<p>28. Bacchica and Orphica.</p>
<p>29. Bios.</p>
<p>Part VII: Philosophical Religion.</p>
<p>30. The New Foundation: Being and the Divine.</p>
<p>31. The Crisis: Sophists and Atheists.</p>
<p>32. The Deliverance: Cosmic Religion and Metaphysics.</p>
<p>33. Philosophical Religion and Polis Religion: Plato′s Laws.</p>
<p>Notes.</p>
<p>Bibliography.</p>
<p>Index of Greek Words.</p>
<p>Index.</p>