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

Adrastea → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

altar of Artemis → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Anemoi → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Rivers of Hades → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Laodamia → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Anteros → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Erotes → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Eurythemis → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Endeis → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Thermopylae sanctuary of Demeter → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Maleatas → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

castration of Uranus → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

altar of Zeus Horkios → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Aerope was given to Nauplius to be sold or married abroad → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

subject surface form: Aerope

Trophonius → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Sanctuary of Zeus at Labraunda → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Grey Sisters → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Γραῖαι → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

deme of Philaidae → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Acraephnium → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Hellenistic Athens → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Twelve Titans → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Abas → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Κωκυτός → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Stratonice of Syria → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Eurynome → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

oracle at Delphi → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

subject surface form: Oracle at Delphi

Antiochus (father of Seleucus I) → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Eurotas → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Philetaerus → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Εὐνομία → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Children of Themis → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

King Gelon II of Syracuse → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

subject surface form: Gelon II of Syracuse

temple of Apollo → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

subject surface form: Temple of Apollo at Myus

Polykleitos the Younger → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Calyce → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Aeolian royal lineage → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Ialemus → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Hymenaeus → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Acastus → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Temple of the Charites → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Temple of the Charites → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Thespians → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Tanagraeans → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Kouklia → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Machaon → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Podalirius → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

Electra (Oceanid) → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

the Inevitable → culture → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

subject surface form: Atropos

Philip III of Macedon → religion → Ancient Greek religion ⓘ

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