Abstract
Entering resolutely into Greek material, this lesson begins the analysis of the adjective ἱερός (hieros) and opens with Jean Rudhardt's essential reflections on the " fundamental notions of Greek religious thought ", which serves as the title of his 1958 thesis. After an overview of archaic dedications and the meaning of the term's use in this particularly concrete context, the various uses of the adjective in Homeric and Hesiodic poetry are analyzed. Unsurprisingly, sanctuaries dedicated to the deities emerge, as do the elements that make up the necessities of human existence : the temporal framework of alternating days and nights, and the food that sustains life, all in relation to the superhuman sphere.
