This handbook offers both students and teachers of ancient Greek religion a comprehensive overview of the current state of scholarship in the subject, from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period.

Esther Eidinow is Associate Professor in Ancient Greek History at the University of Nottingham.
Julia Kindt is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney.

• List of Figures


• Abbreviations and Conventions


• List of Contributors


• Introduction


• Part 1: What is Ancient Greek Religion?


• 1: Robin Osborne: Unity vs. Diversity?


• 2: Tom Harrison: Belief vs. Practice?


• 3: Emily Kearns: Old vs. New?


• 4: Vinciane Pirenne Delforge and Gabriella Pironti: Many vs. One?


• Part 2: Types of Evidence


• 5: Milette Gaifman: Visual Evidence


• 6: Hannah Willey: Literary Evidence: Prose


• 7: Renaud Gagne: Literary Evidence: Poetry


• 8: Claire Taylor: Epigraphic Evidence


• 9: Caitlin E. Barrett: Material Evidence


• 10: David Martinez: Papyrology


• Part 3: Myths? Contexts and Representations


• 11: Richard Martin: Epic


• 12: Tanja Scheer: Art and Imagery


• 13: Claude Calame: Drama


• 14: Robert Fowler: History


• 15: Rick Benitez and Harold Tarrant: Philosophy


• Part 4: Where?


• 16: Mike Scott: Temples and Sanctuaries


• 17: Matt Dillon: Households, Families, and Women


• 18: Kostas Vlassopoulos: Religion in Communities


• 19: Christy Constantakopoulou: Regional Religious Groups, Amphictionies, and Other Leagues


• Part 5: How?


• 20: Mike Flower: Religious Expertise


• 21: Ralph Anderson: New Gods


• 22: Hugh Bowden: Impiety


• 23: Andrej Petrovic: 'Sacred Law'


• Part 6: Who?


• 24: Susan Deacy: Gods: Olympian or Chthonic


• 25: Carolina López-Ruiz: Gods: Origins


• 26: Gunnel Ekroth: Heroes: Living or Dead?


• 27: Emanuel Voutiras: Dead or Alive?


• 28: Giulia Sfameni Gasparro: Daimonic Power


• 29: Ivana Petrovic: Deification: Gods or Men?


• Part 7: What?


• 30: Henk Versnel: Prayer and Curse


• 31: Fred Naiden: Sacrifice


• 32: Sarah Iles Johnston: Oracles and Divination


• 33: Verity Platt: Epiphany


• 34: Fritz Graf: Healing


• Part 8: When?


• 35: Sarah Hitch: From Birth to Death: Life-changing Rituals


• 36: Jan-Matheiu Carbon: Ritual Cycles: Calendars and Festivals


• 37: Radcliffe Edmonds III: Imagining the After-Life


• Part 9: Beyond?


• 38: Gillian Shepherd: Magna Graecia (South Italy and Sicily)


• 39: Maya Muratov: The Northern Black Sea: The Case of the Bosporan Kingdom


• 40: Jan Bremmer: The Ancient Near East


• 41: Kathrin Kleibl: Greco-Egyptian Religion


• 42: Rachael Mairs: Bactria and India


• 43: Lisa Raphals: China and Greece: Comparisons and Insights


• Index