About the Author
Jon D. Mikalson is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. In 1968-1969 he was a Fellow and in 1994-1995 a Whitehead Professor at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece. His books include Athenian Popular Religion (1983), Honor Thy Gods: Popular Religion in Greek Tragedy (1991), Religion in Hellenistic Athens (1998), and Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (2002).
New to Edition
Revised edition includes additional boxed texts and bibliography, an 8 page color plate section, a new discussion of the nature of Greek “piety,” and a new chapter on Greek Religion and Greek Culture