The Gods of Ancient Greece

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List of illustrations Notes on Contributors Abbreviations Preface Introduction: The Greek Gods in the Twentieth Century, Jan N. Bremmer 1. What is a Greek God?, Albert Henrichs 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 Individual Divinities and Heroes: 8. Zeus at Olympia, Judith M. Barringer 9. Zeus in Aeschylus: the Factor of Monetisation, 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 Diachronic Aspects: 14. Early Greek Theology: God as Nature and Natural Gods, Simon Trepanier 15. Gods in Early Greek Historiography, Robert L. Fowler 16. Gods in Apulia, Tom 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 Bernabe 23. Christian Apologists and Greek Gods, Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta 24. The Materiality of God's Image: Olympian Zeus and Ancient Christology, Christoph Auffarth Historiography: 25. The Greek Gods in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century German and British Scholarship, Michael Konaris Epilogue, Andrew Erskine Index of names, subjects and important passages.