Robert Parker is Wykeham Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Polytheism and Society at Athens, Athenian Religion: A History, and Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion.

1. Why Believe without Revelation? The Evidences of Greek Religion
2. Religion without a Church: Religious Authority in Greece
3. Analyzing Greek Gods
4. The Power and Nature of Heroes
5. Killing, Dining, Communicating
6. The Experience of Festivals
7. The Varieties of Greek Religious ExperienceAppendices
1. Seeking the Advice of the God on Matters of Cult
2. Accepting New Gods
3. Worshipping Mortals, and the Nature of Gods
4. Types of Chthonian Sacrifice?
5. The Early History of Hero CultBibliography
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Robert Parker is a married father of three, who lives in a village near Manchester, UK. With degrees in both film and law, he has worked in numerous employment positions, ranging from solicitor's agent, to a van driver, to a commercial video director.

He currently writes full time, while encouraging young readers in local schools. Away from writing, he boxes regularly for charity, loves fiction across all mediums, and his glass is always half full.