Continuity, Adaptation, and the Layered Life of Greek Ritual: Clearing the Air

A response to recurrent misunderstandings

You’re receiving this essay ahead of my usual Sunday schedule. Recent discussions have made it clear that the question of “continuity” in Greek ritual, language, and cultural practice remains both contentious and widely misunderstood—often misread through the lens of outside anxieties or polemic, rather than evidence and scholarship.

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