Is the greek religion still around?
No. There are all sorts of poseurs and wannabes, but to practice ancient Greek religion you have to be an ancient Greek. Read, say, Burkert for details. Coming back after having read Burkert, I can’t say that I found anything in there to substantiate the idea that one has to be an ancient Greek in order to be a practitioner of the religion. I mean, I guess one could say that any version that doesn’t revolve around the daily life of the ancient polis is just for poseurs and wannabes, or one could say that a religion can’t properly be said to be “real” if it’s been broken down, time has passed, and it’s been reconstructed. If one considers unbroken lineage or the original forms of practice to be the defining characteristics of religion, then the NeoPagans are indeed poseurs, but that way of approaching folks’ outlooks on the divine strikes me as a little No-True-Scotsman-ish in its dismissiveness. So the question seems to come down to which religious practices one chooses to view as legi
