Social Life and Religion

Abstract Chapter 9 serves as another break from the main narrative with a discussion of social life and religion. The chapter discusses everyday life, or as much as we know of it; family life; and in particular, the changing roles of women from the Classical through the Hellenistic eras to the Roman era in Athens and Greece. Then there is a discussion on religion and religious life in Athens in these periods, along with the Athenian attitude toward religion. Topics include the major festivals and how they changed, foreign cults such as that of Sarapis from Egypt, and especially the Roman imperial cult.