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Gods, Greek.
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Civilization, Classical.
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Mythology, Greek.
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1 online resource (xxi, 528 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
Contents |
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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Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
Alt author |
Bremmer, Jan N., editor.
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Erskine, Andrew, editor.
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ISBN |
9780748642892 (ebook) |
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9780748637980 (hardback) |
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