Abstract
If we exclude the work of literary scholars and historians of philosophy from studies of Greek religion, the question of " faith " is regrettably absent from the investigations of historians who, although they are reconstructing with increasing precision the workings of the Hellenic polytheistic body-system, neglect too much the question of whether the Greeks believed in the efficacy, or even the existence, of their gods. From this veritable dungeon of the spirit woven around the person by norms and the Norm, did some escape ? How did the city of Athens react between 450 and 380 ?
