The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations

Jan Bremmer; Andrew Erskine

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2010

The Gods of Ancient Greece

Identities and Transformations

Jan Bremmer and Andrew Erskine

In the series Edinburgh Leventis Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748642892

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About this book

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 scholarship. This book brings together a team of international scholars with the aim of remedying this situation and generating new approaches to the nature and development of the Greek gods in the period from Homer until Late Antiquity.

The book looks at individual gods, but also asks to what extent cult, myth and literary genre determine the nature of a divinity. How do the Greek gods function in a polytheistic pantheon and what is their connection to the heroes? What is the influence of philosophy? What does archaeology tell us about the gods? In what way do the gods in Late Antiquity differ from those in classical Greece? This book presents a synchronic and diachronic view of the gods as they functioned in Greek culture until the triumph of Christianity.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	x
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Publicly Available Download PDF	xiv
ABBREVIATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
Introduction THE GREEK GODS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Jan N. Bremmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 WHAT IS A GREEK GOD? Albert Henrichs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
PART I SYSTEMATIC ASPECTS
2 CANONIZING THE PANTHEON: THE DODEKATHEON IN GREEK RELIGION AND ITS ORIGINS Ian Rutherford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3 GODS IN GREEK INSCRIPTIONS: SOME METHODOLOGICAL QUESTIONS Fritz Graf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
4 METAMORPHOSES OF GODS INTO ANIMALS AND HUMANS Richard Buxton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
5 SACRIFICING TO THE GODS: ANCIENT EVIDENCE AND MODERN INTERPRETATIONS Stella Georgoudi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
6 GETTING IN CONTACT: CONCEPTS OF HUMAN–DIVINE ENCOUNTER IN CLASSICAL GREEK ART Anja Klöckner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
7 NEW STATUES FOR OLD GODS Kenneth Lapatin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
PART II INDIVIDUAL DIVINITIES AND HEROES
8 ZEUS AT OLYMPIA Judith M. Barringer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
9 ZEUS IN AESCHYLUS: THE FACTOR OF MONETIZATION Richard Seaford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
10 HEPHAISTOS SWEATS OR HOW TO CONSTRUCT AN AMBIVALENT GOD Jan N. Bremmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
11 TRANSFORMING ARTEMIS: FROM THE GODDESS OF THE OUTDOORS TO CITY GODDESS Ivana Petrovic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
12 HERAKLES BETWEEN GODS AND HEROES Emma Stafford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
13 IDENTITIES OF GODS AND HEROES: ATHENIAN GARDEN SANCTUARIES AND GENDERED RITES OF PASSAGE Claude Calame Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
PART III DIACHRONIC ASPECTS
14 EARLY GREEK THEOLOGY: GOD AS NATURE AND NATURAL GODS Simon Trépanier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
15 GODS IN EARLY GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY Robert L. Fowler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	318
16 GODS IN APULIA T. H. Carpenter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
17 LUCIAN’S GODS: LUCIAN’S UNDERSTANDING OF THE DIVINE Matthew W. Dickie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	348
18 THE GODS IN THE GREEK NOVEL Ken Dowden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	362
19 READING PAUSANIAS: CULTS OF THE GODS AND REPRESENTATION OF THE DIVINE Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
20 KRONOS AND THE TITANS AS POWERFUL ANCESTORS: A CASE STUDY OF THE GREEK GODS IN LATER MAGICAL SPELLS Christopher A. Faraone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	388
21 HOMO FICTOR DEORUM EST: ENVISIONING THE DIVINE IN LATE ANTIQUE DIVINATORY SPELLS Sarah Iles Johnston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	406
22 THE GODS IN LATER ORPHISM Alberto Bernabé Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	422
23 CHRISTIAN APOLOGISTS AND GREEK GODS Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	442
24 THE MATERIALITY OF GOD’S IMAGE: THE OLYMPIAN ZEUS AND ANCIENT CHRISTOLOGY Christoph Auffarth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	465
PART IV HISTORIOGRAPHY
25 THE GREEK GODS IN LATE NINETEENTH- AND EARLY TWENTIETH- CENTURY GERMAN AND BRITISH SCHOLARSHIP Michael Konaris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
EPILOGUE Andrew Erskine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	505
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	511

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 552
Illustrations
- Other: 44 B/W illustrations 4 B/W tables 10 B/W line art
Keywords: Classics & Ancient History

eBook

Published: July 30, 2010
ISBN: 9780748642892