"...brims with enthusiasm for the subject and for current theoretical approaches."
--Jon D. Mikalson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"...an up-to-date, concise and readable textbook, which brings to the English-speaking general reader a synthesis
of much of the past thirty years' work of the 'Paris School' of classical studies....The translation is lively,
but sacrifices none of the theoretical rigour of the text....This is a challenging, absorbing study, to be recommended
to anyone with an interest in the history of religion."
--Helen King, Times Literary Supplement
Cambridge University Press Web Site, April, 2000
Summary
This book is an English translation of the French work La Religion Grecque. Its purpose is to consider how religious
beliefs and cultic rituals were given expression in ancient Greece. The chapters cover first ritual and then myth,
rooting the account in the practices of the classical city while also taking seriously the world of the imagination.
For this edition the bibliography has been substantially revised to meet the needs of a mainly student, English-speaking
readership. The book is enriched throughout by illustrations, and by quotations from original sources.
