This book is the first attempt that has ever been made to give a
comprehensive account of the religious life of ancient Athens. The
city's many festivals are discussed in detail, with attention to
recent anthropological theory; so too, for instance, are the cults
of households and of smaller
groups, the role of religious practice and argumentation in public
life, the authority of priests, the activities of religious
professionals such as seers and priestesses, magic, the place of
theatrical representations of the gods within public attitudes to
the divine. A long final section considers
the sphere of activity of the various gods, and takes Athens as a
uniquely detailed test case for the structuralist approach to
polytheism. The work is a synchronic, thematically organized
complement (though designed to be read independently) to the same
author's Athenian Religion: A History (OUP,
1996).
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