ABSTRACT
Prayer is a prominent feature of Greco-Roman religious life as it is of any religious system in which superhuman power is imagined anthro-pomorphically in terms of agency. Most fundamentally, prayer is a request made of such divine agents. The significance of the prayer will vary, of course, according to the religious context and to the deity or deities addressed in this context, to the occasion of its utterance and to the specific nature of the request and its formal character.
