Religious syncretism: The new gods of greek tragedy

Abstract

A S one scholar has recently expressed the matter, "Greek tragedy is about nothing if not religion."' It is therefore fitting that the study of gods and rituals has stood at the centre of much recent work on tragedy.2 The present paper seeks to contribute to this enquiry, and to do so from a less familiar perspective, for my main topic will not be the central role of the established Olympian gods in the action of the plays, whether as figures on stage3 or through divination and oracles, but