Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Tony Mierzwicki, author of the new Hellenismos: Practicing Greek Polytheism Today.
Back in June, Tomás Prower (author of La Santa Muerte and the new Queer Magic) wrote a guest Llewellyn blog post titled, "Can Queer Magic Be Used by Non-Queer People?," in which he correctly stated: "You don’t have to be Greek to develop a meaningful and potent relationship with the Olympian gods" as a parallel to non-queer people practicing queer magic. So, do you have to be Greek in order to practice Greek polytheism?
There are precedents for non-Greeks practicing Greek polytheism in ancient times.
The Panathenaia, which was the main annual festival