"The subject of Greek Religion has recently received a masterly and elegant treatment in Walter
Burkert's Greek Religion...beautifully translated by John Raffan. Like the Decalogue in the old saw, it arouses
feelings of reverence not unmixed with awe at the author's grasp of his material and the acuity with which he uses
the insights of psychology and sociology to show how the forms of Greek religion were able to satisfy many of the
deepest needs of men...One will not often read a book that illuminates so profoundly what it was like to live in
ancient Greece."
-- Richard Stoneman, History Today
"The German edition of this book was published in 1977, and the author has added references to important
new publications since that date. The introduction has a survey of previous scholarship, a discussion of the sources,
and an explanation of the scope of the volume. What this book seeks to do is to indicate the manifold variety of
the evidence and the problems of its interpretation, always with an awareness of the provisional nature of the
undertaking. This new paperback edition makes an important work available at an economic price."
