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+# Greek Religion
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+# Greek Religion
+
+## Overview
+Ancient Greek religion was a polytheistic system centered on the Olympian gods, practiced through public festivals, sacrifices, oracles, and mystery cults from the Archaic through Hellenistic periods.
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+## Key Facts
+- Period: ~800 BCE – ~400 CE (suppressed under Christianity)
+- Type: Polytheistic
+- Sacred sites: Olympia, Delphi, Eleusis, Delos
+- Key texts: Homer's *Iliad* and *Odyssey*, Hesiod's *Theogony*
+
+## The Olympian Gods
+- Zeus: King of the gods, sky and thunder
+- Hera: Queen of the gods, marriage
+- Athena: Wisdom and warfare
+- Apollo: Sun, music, prophecy
+- Artemis: Hunt and wilderness
+- Poseidon: Sea and earthquakes
+- Aphrodite: Love and beauty
+- Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Demeter, Dionysus [^1]
+
+## Religious Practices
+- Animal sacrifice at altars
+- Panhellenic festivals: Olympic Games (776 BCE–), Pythian Games, Eleusinian Mysteries
+- Oracle at Delphi: Pythia delivered prophecies from Apollo
+- Mystery cults: Eleusinian Mysteries, Orphic mysteries, Dionysiac rites [^2]
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+---
+[^1]: Burkert, W. *Greek Religion* (Harvard, 1985)
+[^2]: Mikalson, J. *Ancient Greek Religion* (Blackwell, 2010)
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