Personal Religion Among the Greeks

Ancient Greek religion is often encountered through temples, festivals and civic ritual. André-Jean Festugière turns instead toward the individual: prayer, devotion, personal piety and the ways people sought a more immediate relationship with the divine.

Using literary and philosophical evidence, Personal Religion Among the Greeks explores forms of religious experience that can disappear when public cult is treated as the whole story. Originally delivered as the Sather Classical Lectures, the work is historically important in its own right and remains a useful specialist study of the meeting point between personal belief and the institutions of Greek religion.