- Title Pages
- Preface
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
-
Introduction the Greek Gods in the Twentieth Century
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1 What is A Greek God? -
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 -
8 Zeus at Olympia -
9 Zeus in Aeschylus: The Factor of Monetization -
10 Hephaistos Sweats or How to Construct an Ambivalent God -
11 Transforming 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 -
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 -
25 The Greek Gods in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century German and British Scholarship - Epilogue
- Index
Zeus at Olympia
Zeus at Olympia
- Chapter:
- (p.155) 8 Zeus at Olympia
- Source:
- The Gods of Ancient Greece
- Author(s):
Jan N. Bremmer
Andrew Erskine
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
The worship of Zeus at Olympia is manifested in the Classical period by dozens of monuments, many of them military votives erected as thank offerings by victorious poleis. While such monuments also feature in other Panhellenic sanctuaries, such as those dedicated to Apollo at Delphi, and Zeus receives military thank offerings at other sites, such as Dodona, Zeus’ connection with warfare at Olympia extends back in time, perhaps to the earliest period of cult activity at the site in the tenth century B.C. Moreover, the particular form of the Classical dedications to Zeus differs from that of military thank offerings elsewhere in their scale and their use of mythological narratives, sometimes involving the god himself.
Keywords: Zeus, Olympia, Panhellenic sanctuaries, Votives, Warfare, Mythological narratives, Monuments
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
-
Introduction the Greek Gods in the Twentieth Century
-
1 What is A Greek God? -
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 -
8 Zeus at Olympia -
9 Zeus in Aeschylus: The Factor of Monetization -
10 Hephaistos Sweats or How to Construct an Ambivalent God -
11 Transforming 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 -
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 -
25 The Greek Gods in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century German and British Scholarship - Epilogue
- Index
