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Introduction
Chapter One Many Gods: Complications of Polytheism
1. Order versus Chaos
2. Ingredients for Chaos
3. Creating Order: Taking Place
4. Conclusions
Chapter Two The Gods: Divine Justice or Divine Arbitrariness?
1. Introduction
2. Homer
3. Herodotus
4. Saving the Author
5. Solon Again
6. Once More: Chaos or Order?
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
3. One is Many: the Gods, the God, and the Divine
4. “One is the God”
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
4. Hermes: The Present God in Visual Art
5. Hungry Hermes: the Sacrificial Meal
6. Conclusion
Chapter Five God: The Question of Divine Omnipotence
1. God: Self and Other
2. God: Powerful or All-Powerful?
3. Miracles in Double Perspective: the Case of Asklepios
4. God: Powerful and All-Powerful
5. Conclusions
Chapter Six Playing (the) God: Did (the) Greeks Believe in the Divinity of their Rulers?
1. Men into Gods
2. Modern Perplexities
3. The Construction of a God
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
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
Indices
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