Cover -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction THE GREEK GODS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- 1 WHAT IS A GREEK GOD? -- PART I SYSTEMATIC ASPECTS -- 2 CANONIZING THE PANTHEON: THE DODEKATHEON IN GREEK RELIGION AND ITS ORIGINS -- 3 GODS IN GREEK INSCRIPTIONS: SOME METHODOLOGICAL QUESTIONS -- 4 METAMORPHOSES OF GODS INTO ANIMALS AND HUMANS -- 5 SACRIFICING TO THE GODS: ANCIENT EVIDENCE AND MODERN INTERPRETATIONS -- 6 GETTING IN CONTACT: CONCEPTS OF HUMAN-DIVINE ENCOUNTER IN CLASSICAL GREEK ART -- 7 NEW STATUES FOR OLD GODS -- PART II INDIVIDUAL DIVINITIES AND HEROES -- 8 ZEUS AT OLYMPIA -- 9 ZEUS IN AESCHYLUS: THE FACTOR OF MONETIZATION -- 10 HEPHAISTOS SWEATS OR HOW TO CONSTRUCT AN AMBIVALENT GOD -- 11TRANSFORMING ARTEMIS: FROM THE GODDESS OF THE OUTDOORS TO CITY GODDESS -- 12 HERAKLES BETWEEN GODS AND HEROES -- 13 IDENTITIES OF GODS AND HEROES: ATHENIAN GARDEN SANCTUARIES AND GENDERED RITES OF PASSAGE -- PART III DIACHRONIC ASPECTS -- 14 EARLY GREEK THEOLOGY: GOD AS NATURE AND NATURAL GODS -- 15 GODS IN EARLY GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY -- 16 GODS IN APULIA -- 17 LUCIAN'S GODS: LUCIAN'S UNDERSTANDING OF THE DIVINE -- 18 THE GODS IN THE GREEK NOVEL -- 19 READING PAUSANIAS: CULTS OF THE GODS AND REPRESENTATION OF THE DIVINE -- 20 KRONOS AND THE TITANS AS POWERFUL ANCESTORS: A CASE STUDY OF THE GREEK GODS IN LATER MAGICAL SPELLS -- 21 HOMO FICTOR DEORUM EST: ENVISIONING THE DIVINE IN LATE ANTIQUE DIVINATORY SPELLS -- 22 THE GODS IN LATER ORPHISM -- 23 CHRISTIAN APOLOGISTS AND GREEK GODS -- 24 THE MATERIALITY OF GOD'S IMAGE: THE OLYMPIAN ZEUS AND ANCIENT CHRISTOLOGY -- PART IV HISTORIOGRAPHY -- 25 THE GREEK GODS IN LATE NINETEENTH- AND EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY GERMAN AND BRITISH SCHOLARSHIP -- EPILOGUE -- INDEX.