“Santo” e “santità” nella Grecia antica

In a polytheistic culture like the Greek one, what we call “holiness” appears as a plural notion, which is not expressed by a single term, but emerges in all its polymorphism through the cultural contents put into value by the three adjectives ὅσιος, ἁγνός and ἅγιος, and the network of semantic relations that opposes them for different reasons to ἱερός.