ABSTRACT
Evidence about regulations dealing with sacred matters can be drawn from several sites. Regulations governing the method of worship at sites such as Oropos, Epidauros, Pergamon, Kos, Lebadeia, Eleusis, Delphi, Andania, Lykosoura and other cult centres should be taken as applying to pilgrims, for they were the main body of worshippers at these sites. Panhellenic pilgrimage centres provide a great deal of information about religious requirements for the visitor, and in the following discussion regulations at some purely local sanctuaries will also be dealt with, to indicate that both local sanctuaries and those drawing a wider clientele had similar cult laws. Such a comparative phenomenology of cult practices within the Greek world provides a comprehensive view of what was required of pilgrim worshippers.
