The gods of ancient Greece : identities and transformations /: identities and transformations. (2010)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The gods of ancient Greece : identities and transformations /: identities and transformations. (2010)
- Main Title:
- The gods of ancient Greece : identities and transformations
- 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 ofIntroduction: 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. … (more)
- 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.
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