Worshipping the gods was an integral part of people’s daily life. It was practiced publicly in temples, but also at home, in appropriately formed areas inside houses or their courtyards. Athena, Artemis, Dionysos, Apollo, Hermes, Asklepios, Hygeia, Aphrodite and Eros were amongst the gods of the Greek pantheon that were worshipped in the area of the excavation.

Greeks were always open to new cults, especially those deriving from the East. Cybele and Hekate, deities from Asia Minor, had found their place in Greek popular religion from early on. Later on, during Greco-roman times, Eastern and Egyptian mystery cults that promised prosperity, salvation, and life after death gained great appeal.

Within the privacy of the residence, people cultivated a more personal relationship with the divine. Through sacrifices, libations and offerings they appealed to the family gods to ask for protection and support, with apotropaic objects they warded off malevolence, with talismans banished envy and the evil eye, with the foundation ritual (engainion) they appeased chthonic powers during construction or renovation of their houses and workshops.

Over time the weakening of the old religion gave Christianity, the new religion deriving from the East, the chance to surpass it. The spreading of the new religion, however, met a lot of resistance, particularly in cities with a strong “ethnic” tradition such as Athens, which remained pagan until the Late Antiquity.