“Can we talk about an Archaeology of Greek Religion?” From this key question addressed by A. Schnapp in 1999 – in an attempt to re-evaluate the hermeneutical and practical dimension of religious archaeology for ancient Greece – until theestablishment of Kernos’ Archaeological Chronicle in 2001 and its present decennial anniversary celebration, the contribution which archaeology can make to our understanding of Greek religion was more than ever highlighted.
1. Religion and synoecism
New types of political organization – namely the enforced or the voluntary synoecism and the sympolity – emerged in a wide scale at the dawn of the classical world, when the restructuring of the socio-political order dynamically overshadowed the classical polis’ saga;this has surely left important traces on the local religious life. The religious inferences of synoecism have been already briefly discussed by M.P. Nilsson, but a thorough response to the question of the impact of communities’ coalescence to t...

