Ancient Greek religion

E3200

Indo-European religion ancient religion polytheistic religion

Ancient Greek religion was the polytheistic belief system of ancient Greece, centered on a pantheon of gods like Zeus and Athena, mythological heroes, and ritual practices that shaped Greek culture, art, and philosophy.

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All labels observed (10)

Label	Occurrences
Ancient Greek religion canonical	420
Greek religion	8
Athenian religion	2
Greek mythology	2
Greek pantheon	2
Hellenic polytheism	2
Ancient Greek mythology	1
AncientGreekReligion	1
Hellenic religion	1
Hellenism (modern religion)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T34899 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Ancient Greek religion
Context triple: [Atlas, culture, Ancient Greek religion]

A. Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Eastern Orthodox Christianity is one of the three main branches of Christianity, characterized by its continuity with the early Church, its liturgical worship, and its communion of autocephalous churches centered primarily in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
B. Judaism
Judaism is one of the world’s oldest monotheistic religions, centered on the covenant between God and the Jewish people and expressed through the Hebrew Bible, law, and tradition.
C. Holy Tradition
Holy Tradition is the living transmission of the faith, worship, and teachings of the Church, preserved and handed down through generations as a primary source of authority alongside Scripture.
D. Greece
Greece is a southeastern European country known as the cradle of Western civilization, famed for its ancient history, philosophy, democracy, and influential cultural heritage.
E. Atlas from Greek mythology
Atlas from Greek mythology is a Titan condemned to hold up the sky for eternity, often associated with endurance and the western edge of the world.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Ancient Greek religion
Target entity description: Ancient Greek religion was the polytheistic belief system of ancient Greece, centered on a pantheon of gods like Zeus and Athena, mythological heroes, and ritual practices that shaped Greek culture, art, and philosophy.

A. Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Eastern Orthodox Christianity is one of the three main branches of Christianity, characterized by its continuity with the early Church, its liturgical worship, and its communion of autocephalous churches centered primarily in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
B. Judaism
Judaism is one of the world’s oldest monotheistic religions, centered on the covenant between God and the Jewish people and expressed through the Hebrew Bible, law, and tradition.
C. Holy Tradition
Holy Tradition is the living transmission of the faith, worship, and teachings of the Church, preserved and handed down through generations as a primary source of authority alongside Scripture.
D. Greece
Greece is a southeastern European country known as the cradle of Western civilization, famed for its ancient history, philosophy, democracy, and influential cultural heritage.
E. Atlas from Greek mythology
Atlas from Greek mythology is a Titan condemned to hold up the sky for eternity, often associated with endurance and the western edge of the world.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (101)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Indo-European religion ⓘ ancient religion ⓘ polytheistic religion ⓘ
declinedUnder	Christianization of the Roman Empire ⓘ
follows	polytheism ⓘ
hasCentralConcept	Olympian gods ⓘ divination ⓘ hero cults ⓘ oracles ⓘ ritual sacrifice ⓘ votive offerings ⓘ
hasConcept	Elysium ⓘ Moirae ⓘ Tartarus ⓘ afterlife in Hades ⓘ daimones ⓘ divine retribution ⓘ hubris ⓘ miasma ⓘ oath to the gods ⓘ xenia ⓘ
hasCosmogony	Hesiod's Theogony ⓘ surface form: Theogony of Hesiod
hasCultPlace	altar ⓘ heroön ⓘ sanctuary ⓘ temple ⓘ
hasDeity	Aphrodite ⓘ Apollo ⓘ Ares ⓘ Artemis ⓘ Asclepius ⓘ Athena ⓘ Demeter ⓘ Dionysus ⓘ Hades ⓘ Hephaestus ⓘ Hera ⓘ Hermes ⓘ Hestia ⓘ Pan ⓘ Persephone ⓘ Poseidon ⓘ Zeus ⓘ
hasFestival	Dionysia ⓘ Isthmian Games ⓘ Nemean Games ⓘ Olympic Games ⓘ Panathenaia ⓘ Pythian Games ⓘ
hasLanguage	Ancient Greek ⓘ
hasMajorSanctuary	Delos ⓘ Delphi ⓘ Dodona ⓘ Eleusis ⓘ Epidaurus ⓘ Olympia ⓘ
hasMysteryCult	Dionysian Mysteries ⓘ Eleusinian Mysteries ⓘ Orphic Mysteries ⓘ
hasMythologicalFigure	Achilles ⓘ Heracles ⓘ Jason ⓘ Odysseus ⓘ Oedipus ⓘ Orpheus ⓘ Perseus ⓘ Theseus ⓘ
hasMythSource	Greek lyric poetry ⓘ Greek tragedy ⓘ
hasOracularCenter	Oracle of Apollo ⓘ surface form: Oracle of Delphi Dodona ⓘ surface form: Oracle of Dodona
hasPantheonName	Twelve Olympians ⓘ surface form: Olympian pantheon
hasReligiousSpecialist	mantis ⓘ priest ⓘ priestess ⓘ
hasRitualPractice	animal sacrifice ⓘ festival ⓘ initiation rite ⓘ libation ⓘ prayer ⓘ procession ⓘ
hasSacredText	Hesiod's Theogony ⓘ surface form: Hesiod’s Theogony Hesiod's Works and Days ⓘ surface form: Hesiod’s Works and Days Homeric Hymns ⓘ Homeric epics ⓘ
influenced	Greek art ⓘ Greek drama ⓘ Greek literature ⓘ Greek philosophy ⓘ Roman religion ⓘ
practicedIn	Asia Minor ⓘ Greek colonies ⓘ Magna Graecia ⓘ Greek Antiquity ⓘ surface form: ancient Greece
relatedTo	Ancient Greek religion self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Hellenism (modern religion)
timePeriod	Greek Antiquity ⓘ surface form: Archaic Greece Greek Antiquity ⓘ surface form: Classical Greece Hellenistic kingdoms ⓘ surface form: Hellenistic period
worshipForm	ancestral cults ⓘ city-state cults ⓘ household cults ⓘ

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Referenced by (440)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hermes Propylaios → worshippedInCulture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Maera → hasCulturalContext → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hellenic religion

Cleeia → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Archidamus III → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Zelos → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Νίκη → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Νίκη → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Athenodorus Cananites → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Oenomaus → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Temple of Hera Lacinia → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Erichthonius → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Great Gods of Samothrace → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Deinomache → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Ganymede → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Telamon → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Damascius → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hellenic polytheism

war of the Epigoni → culturalContext → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

subject surface form: War of the Epigoni

daughters of Gaia → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

subject surface form: Titanides

Arethousa → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Apollo Ismenios → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Eumenes II → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Attalus II Philadelphus → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Corycian Cave → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Philaidae family → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Okeanos → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Tmolos → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Agyieus → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Plutus → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Πλειόνη → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Serapeum of Rome → hasCulturalInfluenceFrom → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

this entity surface form: Greek religion

Croesus → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Children of the Pleiades → culturalContext → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Leucon I → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Cylonian affair → hasCulturalContext → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

this entity surface form: Athenian religion

curse of the Alcmaeonids → religiousContext → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

this entity surface form: Greek religion

Agiad dynasty → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Kabeirion sanctuary → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Samothracian → culturalHeritage → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Kingdom of Bithynia under Prusias II → hasReligion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Psyche → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Laodice II → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Cleopatra I Syra → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Royal Stoa → associatedWith → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

this entity surface form: Athenian religion

Laodice VI → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Robin Lane Fox → areaOfInterest → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

this entity surface form: Greek religion

Amyntas I of Macedon → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Eirene (Greek goddess of peace) → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

subject surface form: Eirene

Parthenon cella → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Sanctuary of Heracles → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

subject surface form: Sanctuary of Heracles (Thasos)

Pagasae → religionPracticed → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

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