Open Access Coping With the Gods

Wayward Readings in Greek Theology

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    • i - xiv
      Preliminary Material
    • 1 - 22
      Introduction
    • 23 - 150
      Many Gods Complications Of Polytheism
    • 151 - 238
      The Gods Divine Justice Or Divine Arbitrariness?
    • 239 - 308
      One God Three Greek Experiments In Oneness
    • 309 - 378
      A God Why Is Hermes Hungry?
    • 379 - 438
      God The Question Of Divine Omnipotence
    • 439 - 492
      Playing (The) God Did (The) Greeks Believe In The Divinity Of Their Rulers?
    • 493 - 498
      Epilogue
    • 499 - 516
      Grouping The Gods
    • 517 - 526
      Unity Or Diversity—One God Or Many? A Modern Debate
    • 527 - 538
      Drive Towards Coherence In Two Herodotus-Studies
    • 539 - 560
      Did The Greeks Believe In Their Gods?
    • 561 - 576
      Bibliography
    • 577 - 583
      Index Of Passages Cited
    • 584 - 586
      Greek Words
    • 587 - 594
      General Index

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Abandoning monolithic approaches and embracing the possibility of inconsistencies and incongruities in Greek thought, behaviour, and culture, this book investigates how ancient Greeks could validate the complementarity of dissonant, if not contradictory, representations in e.g.polytheism, theodicy, divine omnipotence and ruler cult.

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