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Coping With the Gods
CONTENTS
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One: Many Gods: Complications of Polytheism
1. Order versus Chaos
The Greek pantheon: kosmos or chaos?
2. Ingredients for Chaos
In search of identities
Names and surnames: one god or many?
3. Creating Order: Taking Place
\"The gods who dwell in our city\"
Beyond the polis border (and back)
Ducking out: gods in personal religiosity
4. Conclusions
Chapter Two: The Gods: Divine Justice or Divine Arbitrariness?
1. Introduction
Controversial diction in archaic poetry
Modern Voices
2. Homer
3. Herodotus
Two tales, many perspectives
Modern voices: fear of diversity
4. Saving the Author
5. Solon Again
6. Once More: Chaos or Order?
Paratactic multiplicity
‘Gnomologisches Wissen’
The rehabilitation of parataxis
Thinking in gnomai—speaking in parataxis
7. Putting to the Test: Hesiod
8. Envoy
Chapter Three: One God: Three Greek Experiments in Oneness
1. Introduction
2. One and Many: The God(s) of Xenophanes
One or many?
One and many
Concluding remarks
3. One is Many: The Gods, the God, and the Divine
On singular plurals
Concluding remarks
4. \"One is the God\"
Praising the god
Aretalogy
Nine characteristics of henotheistic religion
The nature of oneness in henotheistic religion
Questions of origin
Concluding remarks
5. Conclusion
Chapter Four: A God: Why is Hermes Hungry?
1. Hungry Hermes and Greedy Interpreters
2. Hermes: The Human God in the Hymn
3. Hermes: The Eternal Dupe in the Fable
Burlesques
Paying a social call
4. Hermes: The Present God in Visual Art
Socializing
More burlesques
Herms and sacrifice
5. Hungry Hermes: The Sacrificial Meal
\"The warm splanchna which I used to gobble up\"
\"The titbits Hermes likes to eat\"
\"Companion of the feast\" (δαιτὸς ἑταίρε)
6. Conclusion
Plates for Chapter Four are on pages 338–339, 344–345, and 377
Chapter Five God: The Question of Divine Omnipotence
1. God: Self and Other
Self
Other
Self and other
Gods: self and other
Some inferences
2. God: Powerful or All-Powerful?
3. Miracles in Double Perspective: The Case of Asklepios
4. God: Powerful and All-Powerful
Omnipotence, ancient philosophers and modern theologians
Inconsistency in religious expression
5. Conclusions
Chapter Six: Playing (the) God: Did (the) Greeks Believe in the Divinity of their Rulers?
1. Men into Gods
A swollen-headed doctor: the case of Menekrates
A charismatic prince: the case of Demetrios Poliorketes
2. Modern Perplexities
3. The Construction of a God
Language
Performance
4. Did (The) Greeks Believe in the Divinity of their Rulers?
5. Ritual Play: Sincere Hypocrisy
6. Birds Into Gods: Comic Theopoetics
7. Making a God: A Multiple Perspective Approach
Epilogue
APPENDICES
I. Grouping the Gods
All the Gods
The Twelve Gods
II. Unity or Diversity—One God or Many? A Modern Debate
III. Drive Towards Coherence in Two Herodotus-Studies
IV. Did the Greeks Believe in their Gods?
Bibliography
Index of Passages Cited
Greek Words
General Index