For the first time in Russian, a book by Swiss professor Walter Burkert on ancient Greek religion is published, recognized in world science as a classic work in this area. Cults of gods and heroes from Mycenae to the classical era, rituals, mysteries, religious philosophy - these various aspects of the topic are reflected in a voluminous essay, the apparatus of which contains references to all the most important scientific literature on these issues. The book will provide serious assistance in the work of specialists (historians, religious scholars, theologians, philologists), but will be of interest to any reader interested in what was the true living religion of the Hellenes, but is known to most only as a set of ancient myths.