It was one of the first works by the outstanding Classic philologist and specialist in Classic literature Ya. M. Borovsky, anticipating his long-lasting interest to Classic free-thinking and the philosophy of Lucretius, The main topic of the article is clear from its title: the author studied the problem of interpreting the religious component of the Ancient Greek legal field and in the connecting discourse since Archaichs, and how did its early interpretations were connected with later ones.
A direct context of that article was the collection of articles ‘Religion and Society’ published in 1926. It reflected an attempt to build a new discipline on the Oriental and Classic religion, oriented at studying the phenomenon with new approaches of 1920-s.