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Focus Question: What were the religious beliefs, customs and policies of Greek religion and how did the gods fit in?

Background
Greek religion spans from the Minoan and Mycenaean periods to the days of Hellenistic (ending in 31 BE) Greece, when the Romans invaded and took over Greece.

The Greeks primary way of worship was through cult practices. However there were so many variations dependent
on the area in which a person comes from that it can be said that there were Greek religions. When talking about Greek religion though we must keep in mind that the Greek language did not have a term for ‘religion' in the sense of what we know it to be today, rather the Greeks spoke of their religious happenings as ‘ta theia', roughly translated ‘having things to do with the gods'. Even though they didn't have a word for religion we cannot assume that they didn't have rules and principles that governed their practices. The Greeks did have a word for belief, so the Greeks definitely......

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