Coping with the gods: wayward readings in Greek theology
1.2.3.4.5.6.Appendices --Many Gods: Complications of Polytheism --Order versus Chaos --The Greek pantheon: kosmos or chaos? --Ingredients for Chaos --In search of identities --Names and surnames: one god or many? --Creating Order: Taking Place --The gods who dwell in our city --Beyond the polis bord...
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2011
Leiden Boston [2015] |
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v. 173 |
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| 520 | |a 1.2.3.4.5.6.Appendices --Many Gods: Complications of Polytheism --Order versus Chaos --The Greek pantheon: kosmos or chaos? --Ingredients for Chaos --In search of identities --Names and surnames: one god or many? --Creating Order: Taking Place --The gods who dwell in our city --Beyond the polis border (and back) --Ducking out: gods in personal religiosity --The Gods: Divine Justice or Divine Arbitrariness? --Controversial diction in archaic poetry --Modern Voices --Homer --Herodotus --Two tales, many perspectives --Modern voices: fear of diversity --Saving the Author --Solon Again --Once More: Chaos or Order? --Paratactic multiplicity --'Gnomologisches Wissen' --The rehabilitation of parataxis --Thinking in gnomai--speaking in parataxis --Putting to the Test: Hesiod --Envoy --One God: Three Greek Experiments in Oneness --One and Many: The God(s) of Xenophanes --One or many? --One and Many --One is Many: The Gods, the God and the Divine --On singular plurals --One is the God --Praising the god --Aretalogy --Nine characteristics of henotheistic religion --The nature of oneness in henotheistic religion --Questions of origin --A God: Why is Hermes Hungry? --Hungry Hermes and Greedy Interpreters --Hermes: The Human God in the Hymn --Hermes: The Eternal Dupe in the Fable --Burlesques --Paying a social call --Hermes: The Present God in Visual Art --Socializing --More burlesques --Herms and sacrifice --Hungry Hermes: The Sacrificial Meal --The warm splanchna which I used to gobble up --The titbits Hermes likes to eat --Companion of the feast --God: the Question of Divine Omnipotence --God: Self and Other --Self --Other --Self and other --Gods: Self and other --Some inferences --God: Powerful or All-Powerful? --Miracles in Double Perspective: The Case of Asklepios --God: Powerful and All-Powerful --Omnipotence, ancient philosophers and modern theologians --Inconsistency in religious expression --Playing (the) God: did (the) Greeks Believe in the Divinity of their Rulers? --Men into Gods --A swollen-headed doctor: the case of Menekrates --A charismatic prince: the case of Demetrios Poliorketes --Modern Perplexities --The Construction of a God --Language --Performance --Did (the) Greeks believe in the Divinity of their Rulers? --Ritual Play: Sincere Hypocrisy --Birds into Gods: Comic Theopoetics --Making a God: A Multiple Perspective Approach --Grouping the Gods --Unity or Diversity--One God or Many? A Modern Debate --Drive Towards Coherence in Two Herodotus-Studies --Did the Greeks Believe in their Gods? | ||
| 520 | |a Inspired by a critical reconsideration of current monolithic approaches to the study of Greek religion, this book argues that ancient Greeks displayed a disquieting capacity to validate two (or more) dissonant, if not contradictory, representations of the divine world in a complementary rather than mutually exclusive manner. From this perspective the six chapters explore problems inherent in: order vs. variety/chaos in polytheism, arbitrariness vs. justice in theodicy, the peaceful co-existence of mono- and polytheistic theologies, human traits in divine imagery, divine omnipotence vs. limitat | ||
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