Home›Ancient Greek Sites›TraditionBrowse ByTraditionThis page groups sacred sites by the specific religion or culture that consecrated them. Wikipedia defines a sacred space as "a designated area, often marked by physical boundaries or symbols, that is considered holy or consecrated by a particular religion or culture." Browsing by tradition lets a visitor read every site belonging to one tradition together.FactsLearn MoreTraditionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedSanctuaries rather than congregational buildings. A Greek temple housed the god's image; the cult acted at the altar in the open air outside it, and the sanctuary boundary, not the roof, made the place holy. The group includes the panhellenic sanctuaries, which belonged to no single city and drew the whole Greek world to their oracles and games. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedSacred Sites 1Learn MoreSacred Sites of Ancient Greece This group gathers the sacred sites of ancient Greek religion, the temples, sanctuaries and oracles where the gods were worshipped and consulted. Greek sacred places included panhellenic sanctuaries that drew worshippers from across the Greek world and hosted the great games and oracles. The browser will find the temples of the Olympian gods, the oracular sanctuaries and the sacred precincts of the Greek cities. The entries describe each site's deity, cult and history as a place of a historical religion.TraditionFilter Results3 entriesEra of Decline End YearAll529 (1)Era of Decline Start YearAll380 (1)Era of Modern Revival End YearAll2000 (1)Era of Modern Revival Start YearAll1990 (1)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCodified Obligation With Consequences (1)Origin Period End YearAll700 BCE (1)396 (1)2000 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll1400 BCE (1)700 BCE (1)1990 (1)Practice StatusAllClosed ceremonial knowledge, described but not reproduced (1)Discontinued as a state religion (1)Living, and in active revival (1)Status TodayAllHistorical; not practised continuously (2)Living tradition, practised today (1)Revived or reconstructed in the modern era (1)TheologyAllPolytheistic: many gods (3)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAncient Greek ReligionTradition10 entriesThe Eleusinian MysteriesTradition1 entryHellenic Polytheism (Hellenismos)Tradition1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Greek Religiontier 1Walter Burkert, Harvard University Press, 1985View the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.