Does anybody know of a good treatment of the relation between religion and politics in Greece, in particular, the relation between priest and political leader/general? Who called the shots and how? For example, I would like a treatment that explains if and how political pressure was brought to bear on Delphi or from Delphi. Perhaps we don't know, but if so I would like a treatment that explicitly says what we do and don't know. I have never studied the subject, but every time I see a book, I skim it for a discussion of this point and always seem to come up empty. Peter Brown would probably know, but most of his books are on late antiquity and the early Christians and he didn't take up the matter directly in the couple of books of his that I read. In Roman history, it is easier to get a handle on things as Numa has the state supporting the priests and priestesses from 700BC and so it seems your basic narrative is one of the state calling the shots. In Greece, however, you have rival city states sharing religious beliefs and rituals. Surely their rivalry must have spilled over into battles over who controls Delphi. Wouldn't it? And intrapolis also their must have been rivalry over temple control. Wouldn't there have been? How did that play out? And what is a good source?
Thanks in advance.