The gods of ancient Greece : identities and transformations /: identities and transformations. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jan N. Bremmer and Andrew Erskine.
• Editors: Bremmer, Jan N; Erskine, Andrew
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Copyright Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxi, 528 pages), illustrations, map
• Subjects: 292.2113; Gods, Greek; Civilization, Classical; Mythology, Greek; RELIGION -- Antiquities & Archaeology; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism; HISTORY -- Ancient -- General; Mythology, Greek; Civilization, Classical; Gods, Greek; Götter; Gottesvorstellung; Götter -- griechische; Religion; Götter; Grekiska gudar; Griechenland; Griechenland (Altertum); Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748642892; 0748642897
• Related ISBNs: 9780748637980; 0748637982; 9780748683222; 0748683224
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.