More Historical Material to Work with Than Most Revivals

Hellenismos, the modern revival of ancient Greek polytheistic religious practice, benefits from a considerably richer surviving historical source base than most other modern pagan revival movements catalogued in this atlas, since ancient Greek religion, discussed as its own separate historical corpus elsewhere in this atlas, left extensive literary, epigraphic and philosophical evidence, including hymns, ritual calendars and detailed philosophical discussion of religious practice by ancient authors themselves, giving contemporary Hellenic polytheist practitioners considerably more documented material to draw on than, for example, contemporary Slavic Rodnovery or Celtic Druidry can access for their respective ancestral traditions. This does not mean Hellenismos amounts to unbroken continuous practice, however, since ancient Greek religion as an organized, widely practiced tradition effectively ended with the Christianization of the late Roman Empire many centuries before its modern revival began, meaning contemporary Hellenismos, like other revival movements in this atlas, involves real reconstruction and interpretation of ancient sources by modern practitioners rather than unbroken transmission across the intervening centuries.