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18 The religious elements that are most persistent in Sophoclean tragedy are—

1. The association of religion with the sanctities of domestic life. In this the powers of Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Artemis, Demeter, and the Erinyes are combined.

2. The recognition of Athena as the special protectress of cities.

3. The religious duty of protecting the stranger and the suppliant.

4. The importance of funeral rites.

5 . The close relation of the Divine working to the course of individual lives.

6. The tendency, which is most apparent in the latest dramas, insensibly to substitute the inward for the outward, the moral for the positive, in religious obligation.