Description
It is a book in regards to the spiritual lifetime of the Greeks from archaic times to the fifth century AD, checked out within the context of numerous different cities and periods. Simon Price examines local practices and ideas within the light of general Greek ideas, relating them to such issues as gender roles, political life, and the trial of Socrates. He lays emphasis at the reactions to Greek religions of ancient thinkers–Greek, Roman and Christian. The evidence drawn on is of a wide variety: literary, inscriptional and archaeological.