Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations
Jan N. Bremmer
Jul 2010 · Edinburgh University Press
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This collection offers a fresh look at the nature and development of the Greek gods in the period from Homer until Late Antiquity 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. Bremmer and Erskine bring 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 Gods of Ancient Greece looks at individual gods, but also asks to what extent cult, myth and literary genre determine the nature of a divinity and presents a synchronic and diachronic view of the gods as they functioned in Greek culture until the triumph of Christianity.
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Jan Bremmer is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Groningen. Andrew Erskine is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh.
Jan N. Bremmer is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Groningen.
Jan Bremmer is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Groningen. Andrew Erskine is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh.
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