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Greek Gods Abroad

Names
by Robert Parker (Author)
Hardcover eBook
Price: $44.95 / £38.00
Publication Date: May 2017
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 261
ISBN: 9780520967250
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Illustrations: 2 b/w maps
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About the Book

Robert Parker is Wykeham Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion, Athenian Religion: A History, Polytheism and Society in Athens, and On Greek Religion.

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and Transformations

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Names and Epithets
2. Interpretatio
3. Gods of Many Nations and Their Naming in Greek: Non-Greek Naming Traditions
4. Supreme, Ancestral, and Personal Gods
5. Ad Maiorem Deorum Gloriam: The Growth of Praise Epithets
6. Delos: Where God Meets God
Conclusion

Appendix A. Postclassical Use of the Epithet O?ρ?νιος
Appendix B. Translated Theophoric Names
Appendix C. Interpretatio in India
Appendix D. Some Non-Greek Theonyms in Anatolia
Appendix E. Thasian Herakles
Appendix F. Some Epithets in Bilingual Texts
Appendix G. Divine and Human Names Juxtaposed
Appendix H. Exported Gods: Th e Cults of Hellenistic Colonies
Bibliography
Index

Reviews

". . . offers a wide-ranging discussion of the processes by which the Greeks identified their gods with those of other people."
— Times Literary Supplement
"Parker’s attention to names, cultic forms, and cultural exchange demonstrates a wide-ranging polytheistic arrangement of religious values and practices. . . . Summing Up: Recommended."
— CHOICE
"Parker [shows] the malleability of the ways in which humans use language and structure their ideas. Parker brilliantly analyses that malleability and also its limits, and in so doing he helps us to understand the ancients and ourselves."
— Bryn Mawr Classical Review