A companion to Greek religion / edited by Daniel Ogden.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [439]-476) and index.

Greek Religion and the Ancient Near East/ Scott B. Noegel -- Olympian Gods, Olympian Pantheon/ Ken Dowden -- A Land Full of Gods: Nature Deities in Greek Religion/ Jennifer Larson -- Personification in Greek Religious Thought and Practice/ Emma Stafford -- The Dead/ D. Felton -- Heroes and Hero-Cults/ Gunnel Ekroth -- Prayers and Hymns/ William D. Furley -- Greek Normative Animal Sacrifice/ Jan N. Bremmer -- Divination/ Pierre Bonnechere -- A Day in the Life of a Greek Sanctuary/ Beate Dignas -- Purity and Pollution/ Andreas Bendlin -- Festivals/ Scott Scullion -- Time and Greek Religion/ James Davidson -- "Famous Athens, Divine Polis": The Religious System at Athens/ Susan Deacy -- The Religious System at Sparta/ Nicolas Richer -- The Religious System at Alexandria/ Francoise Dunand -- The Religious System in Arcadia/ Madeleine Jost -- Religion and Society in Classical Greece/ Charles W. Hedrick Jr. -- Women, Religion, and the Home/ Janett Morgan -- "Something to do with Aphrodite": Ta Aphrodisia and the Sacred/ Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge -- Finding Dionysus/ Susan Guettel Cole -- The Mysteries of Demeter and Kore/ Kevin Clinton -- Magic in Classical and Hellenistic Greece/ Matthew W. Dickie -- Greek Religion and Literature/ Thomas Harrison -- Greek Religion and Philosophy: The God of the Philosopher/ Fritz-Gregor Herrmann -- Greek Religion and Art/ T.H. Carpenter -- Gods of the Silver Screen: Cinematic Representations of Myth and Divinity/ Lloyd Lllewellyn-Jones.