Religion in Hellenistic Athens by Jon D. Mikalson
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Overview: Until now, there has been no comprehensive study of religion in Athens from the end of the classical period to the time of Rome’s domination of the city. Jon D. Mikalson provides a chronological approach to religion in Hellenistic Athens, disproving the widely held belief that Hellenistic religion during this period represented a decline from the classical era. Drawing from epigraphical, historical, literary & archeological sources, he traces the religious cults & beliefs of Athenians from the battle of Chaeroneia in 338 to the devastation of Athens by Sulla in 86 BCE, demonstrating that traditional religion played a centrally vital role in Athenian private, social & political life. He describes the private & public religious practices of Athenians during this period, emphasizing the role these practices played in the life of the citizens & providing a careful scruntiny of individual cults. He concludes his study by using his findings from Athens to call into question several commonly held assumptions about the general development of religion in Hellenistic Greece.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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