Ancient Greek Religion: From the Mycenaean Period to the Classical PeriodAncient Greece has been a religion-centered culture since the earliest period of habitation in Greece, the pre-Mycenaean/Mycenaean period . Even through the Middle Ages to the classical period. It is a religion-centered civilization and has undergone significant changes in how it has been incorporated into people's daily lives. Religion is important to know about the ancient Greeks because through it we are able to understand how they lived their lives. Greek religion in the Mycenaean period was practiced inside caves or rock shelters according to the Minoan-Mycenaean religion and its survival in Greek religion and were known as natural sanctuaries (Nilsson,1950, p.54). Which one could conclude that since the early Greeks inhabited the same area, their religious practices would have taken place, this could have been the reason why they were a religion centered culture. Greek religious houses or sanctuaries were also known to be places of worship, and in many caves offerings were made to the gods, through bloodless and other sacrifices. Their religion is described as something that can be personal and individual but is made public and communal, something that everyone can join in (Bremmer, 1994, p.2-3). For the offerings, as well as the sacrifices, an altar was necessary which then constituted a significant part of the Greek religion, it was a necessary structure for worship but it was not portable and came in different typologies: rectangular, quadrangular and oval. For the Mycenaean Greeks and the Minoan inhabitants of Greece it was not only a place of offerings and sacrifices, but in addition to the double ax it was a place where justice and punishment were dispensed. and according to the archaeologist Harriet Boyd...... center of the sheet......mer, Jan N. Greek religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Dietrich, Bernard C. The Origins of Greek Religion. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1974.Furley, William D. Studies in the Use of Fire in Ancient Greek Religion. New York: Arno Press, 1981.Garland, Robert. The Greek way of death. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985. Homer and Walter Pater. The song of Demeter and her daughter Persephone, a Homeric hymn. Chicago: R. F. Seymour, 1902.Jameson, Michael. "Mycenaean religion". Archeology 13, no. 1 (1960): 33-39. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41663732 (accessed April 21, 2014).Mikalson, Jon D. Ancient Greek Religion. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2005.Mikalson, Jon D. Religion in Hellenistic Athens. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Nilsson, Martin, and Hesiod. Greek popular religion. New York: New York: Columbia University Press, 1940.