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Sharing with the Gods Emergency the practice of human rightsSharing with the Gods examines one of the most ubiquitous yet little studied aspects of ancient Greek religion, the offering of so called 'first fruits' (aparchai) and 'tithes' (dekatai), from the Archaic period to the Hellenistic. While most existing studies of Greek religion tend to focus on ritual performance, this volume investigates questions of religious belief and mentality: why the Greeks presented these gifts to the gods, and what their