Religion in the ancient Greek city - Zaidman, Louise Bruit; Schmitt Pantel, Pauline; Cartledge, Paul (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992)
Author's preface to the English translation -- pt. I. Introduction : How should we study Greek civic religion? The necessity of cultural estrangement ; Some fundamental notions ; Sources of evidence -- pt. II. Cult-practices. Rituals ; Religious personnel ; Places of cult ; Rites of passage ; Settings of religious life ; Religion and political life ; The festival system : the Athenian case ; The Panhellenic cults -- pt. III. Systems for representing the divine. Myths and mythology ; A polytheistic religion ; Forms of imaginative projection -- pt. IV. Envoi. Concluding reflections -- Appendices. I: The classical Greek temple ; II: The monuments of the Athenian Akropolis.
Translation of: La religion grecque.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-267) and index.
Keywords: Cities and towns -- Greece; Greece -- Religion