Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. [religions and religious concepts]
5. religions (belief systems, cultures)

Anotations

Scope note:

General term for various systems of beliefs and practices of the eastern Mediterranean peoples under Hellenistic influence from 300 BC to 300 BCE. Characterized by a spiritual revolution in the Greek and Roman empires, when old cults died or were fundamentally transformed and when new religious movements came into being.