Coping with the gods: wayward readings in greek theology
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations
. xi
Introduction
. 1
Chapter One
Many Gods: Complications of Polytheism
. 23
1.
Order versus Chaos
. 23
The Greek pantheon:
kosmos
or chaos?
. 26
2.
Ingredients for Chaos
. 37
In search of identities
. 37
Names and surnames: one god or many?
. 60
3.
Creating Order: Taking Place
. 88
"The gods who dwell in our city"
. 88
Beyond the
polis
border (and back)
. 102
Ducking out: gods in personal religiosity
. 119
4.
Conclusions
. 142
Chapter Two
The Gods: Divine Justice or Divine Arbitrariness?
. 151
1.
Introduction
. 151
Controversial diction in archaic poetry
. 151
Modern Voices
. 160
2.
Homer
. 163
3.
Herodotus
. 179
Two tales, many perspectives
. 179
Modern voices: fear of diversity
. 187
4.
Saving the Author
. 190
5.
Solon Again
. 201
6.
Once More: Chaos or Order?
. 212
Paratactic multiplicity
. 213
'Gnomologisches
Wissen'
. 218
The rehabilitation of parataxis
. 226
Thinking in gnomai
—
speaking in parataxis
. 229
7.
Putting to the Test: Hesiod
. 231
8.
Envoy
. 234
Viii CONTENTS
Chapter Three
One God: Three Greek Experiments in Oneness
. 239
1.
Introduction
. 239
2.
One and Many: The GodCs) of Xenophanes
. 244
One or many?
. 248
One and many
. 256
Concluding remarks
. 266
3.
One is Many: The Gods, the God, and the Divine
. 268
On singular plurals
. 268
Concluding remarks
. 278
4.
"One is the God"
. 280
Praising the god
. 280
Aretalogy
. 283
Nine characteristics of henotheistic religion
. 289
The nature of oneness in henotheistic religion
. 296
Questions of origin
. 301
Concluding remarks
. 303
5.
Conclusion
. 304
Chapter Four
A God: Why is Hermes Hungry?
. 309
1.
Hungry Hermes and Greedy Interpreters
. 309
2.
Hermes: The Human God in the Hymn
. 319
3.
Hermes: The Eternal Dupe in the Fable
. 327
Burlesques
. 329
Paying a social call
. 332
4.
Hermes: The Present God in Visual Art
. 335
Socializing
. 337
More burlesques
. 343
Herms
and sacrifice
. 348
5.
Hungry Hermes: The Sacrificial Meal
. 352
"The warm splanchna which I used to gobble up"
. 353
"The titbits Hermes likes to eat"
. 364
"Companion of the feast"
(δαιτος εταίρε) .
367
6.
Conclusion
. 370
Plates for Chapter Four are on pages
338-339, 344-345,
and
377
CONTENTS
IX
Chapter Five
God: The Question of Divine Omnipotence
. 379
1.
God: Self and Other
. 379
Self
. 379
Other
. 384
Self and other
. 385
Gods: self and other
. 388
Some inferences
. 391
2.
God: Powerful or All-Powerful?
. 396
3.
Miracles in Double Perspective: The Case of Asklepios
. 400
4.
God: Powerful and All-Powerful
. 422
Omnipotence, ancient philosophers and modern
theologians
. 427
Inconsistency in religious expression
. 431
5.
Conclusions
. 436
Chapter Six
Playing (the) God: Did (the) Greeks Believe in the
Divinity of their Rulers?
. 439
1.
Men into Gods
. 439
A swollen-headed doctor: the case of Menekrates
. 439
A charismatic prince: the case of
Demetrios
Poliorketes
. 444
2.
Modern Perplexities
. 456
3.
The Construction of a God
. 460
Language
. 460
Performance
. 463
4.
Did (The) Greeks Believe in the Divinity of their
Rulers?
. 465
5.
Ritual Play: Sincere Hypocrisy
. 470
6.
Birds Into Gods: Comic Theopoetics
. 480
7.
Making a God: A Multiple Perspective Approach
. 485
Epilogue
. 493
Appendices
. 499
I. Grouping the Gods
. 501
All the Gods
. 501
The Twelve Gods
. 507
X
CONTENTS
II. Unity or Diversity
—
One God or Many? A Modern
Debate
. 517
III. Drive Towards Coherence in Two Herodotus-Studies
. 527
IV. Did the Greeks Believe in their Gods?
. 539
Bibliography
. 561
Indices
Index of Passages Cited
. 577
Greek Words
. 584
General Index
. 587 |
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