The gods of ancient Greece: identities and transformations

The Greek gods are still very much present in modern consciousness. Although Apollo and Dionysos, Artemis and Aphrodite, Zeus and Hermes are household names, it is much less clear what these divinities meant and stood for in ancient Greece. In fact, they have been very much neglected in modern schol...

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Contributors: Bremmer, Jan N. 1944- (Editor) ; Erskine, Andrew (Editor)
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Language:English
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Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2010.
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Further subjects:B Mythology, Greek
B Gods, Greek
B Civilization, Classical
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520 |a Introduction: The Greek Gods in the Twentieth Century / Jan N. Bremmer ---- 1. What is a Greek God? / Albert Henrichs ---- Part I. Systematic aspects. 2. Canonizing the Pantheon: the Dodekatheon in Greek Religion and its Origins / Ian Rutherford --- 3. Gods in Greek Inscriptions: Some Methodological Questions / Fritz Graf --- 4. Metamorphoses of Gods into Animals and Humans / Richard Buxton --- 5. Sacrificing to the Gods: Ancient Evidence and Modern Interpretations / Stella Georgoudi --- 6. Getting in Contact: Concepts of Human-Divine Encounter in Classical Greek Art / Anja Klockner --- 7. New Statues for Old Gods / Kenneth Lapatin ---- Part II. Individual Divinities and Heroes. 8. Zeus at Olympia / Judith M. Barringer --- 9. Zeus in Aeschylus: the Factor of Monetization / Richard Seaford --- 10. Hephaistos Sweats or How to Construct an Ambivalent God / Jan N. Bremmer --- 11. Transforming Artemis: from the Goddess of the Outdoors to City Goddess / Ivana Petrovic --- 12. Herakles between Gods and Heroes / Emma Stafford --- 13. Identities of Gods and Heroes: Athenian Garden Sanctuaries and Gendered Rites of Passage / Claude Calame ---- Part III. Diachronic Aspects. 14. Early Greek Theology: God as Nature and Natural Gods / Simon Trépanier --- 15. Gods in Early Greek Historiography / Robert L. Fowler --- 16 Gods in Apulia / T.H. Carpenter --- 17. Lucian's Gods: Lucian's Understanding of the Divine / Matthew W. Dickie --- 18. The Gods in the Greek Novel / Ken Dowden --- 19. Reading Pausanias: Cults of the Gods and Representation of the Divine / Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge --- 20. Kronos and the Titans as Powerful Ancestors: A Case Study of the Greek Gods in Later Magical Spells / Christopher A. Faraone --- 21. Homo fictor deorum est: Envisioning the Divine in Late Antique Divinatory Spells / Sarah Iles Johnston --- 22. The Gods in Later Orphism / Alberto Bernabé --- 23. Christian Apologists and Greek Gods / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta --- 24 The Materiality of God's Image: Olympian Zeus and Ancient Christology / Christoph Auffarth ---- Part IV. Historiography. 25. The Greek Gods in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century German and British Scholarship / Michael Konaris 
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