The Greek gods are still very much present in modern consciousness.
Although Apollo and Dionysos, Artemis and Aphrodite, Zeus and
Hermes are household names, it is much less clear what these
divinities meant and stood for in ancient Greece. In fact, they
have been very much neglected in modern scholarship. This book
brings together a team of international scholars with the aim of
remedying this situation and generating new approaches to the
nature and development of the Greek gods in the period from Homer
until Late Antiquity. The book looks at individual gods, but also
asks to what extent cult, myth and literary genre determine the
nature of a divinity. How do the Greek gods function in a
polytheistic pantheon and what is their connection to the heroes?
What is the influence of philosophy? What does archaeology tell us
about the gods? In what way do the gods in Late Antiquity differ
from those in classical Greece? This book presents a synchronic and
diachronic view of the gods as they functioned in Greek culture
until the triumph of Christianity.
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