In order to understand why festivals and sacrifices are important, it is first crucial to understand how the Greeks viewed and treated religion in their community. To start, Greek religion is a way of interpreting and representing a person’s experience in the external world (Easterling and Muir 1985, 5). This statement shows that a person’s religious experience in ancient Greece is interconnected to the external world, or the community. The first aspect of the community religion is respect. Respect is a major part of ancient Greek religion, for it does not only shape one’s individual experience, but it shapes the community’s experience as well. Since the community and religious activities are so interconnected with one another, one person’s
