If the reproduction of classical antiquity through knowledge and observation of its essential expressions is the task of philology in the broadest sense of the word, then it is the cultural antiquities that represent the expressions of religious life, the worship services, and the sacred institutions. Like every field of ancient studies, this one also intersects with related areas; many religious customs can only be understood through the peculiarities of private life, and some sacred regulations only through the institutions of the state. In fact, it cannot be separated from mythology, that is, the study of religion. If cult and worship have been the branch on which the most beautiful blossom has grown on the incomparable tree of Hellenic life—poetry and art—then the driving force has been religion itself. Worship and all forms and types of it...