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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Contents
Preface: Simonides Was Wise
Introduction: A Family Portrait
Part I. Birth: Archaic Greece
1. At Home in Greece
2. Epic Visions
3. Critical Views
Part II. Dialogue: Classical Athens
4. An Education for Greece
5. Exile and Death
6. Fictions and Fantasies
Part III. Travel: Hellenistic Egypt
7. Farther Than Dionysos
8. Dead Gods and Divine Planets
9. At Home in Alexandria
Part IV. Translation: The Roman Empire
10. The Muses in Rome
11. Ancestors, Allies, and Alter Egos
12. Mutants
Part V. Disguise: Christianity and Islam
13. Human Like You
14. Demons
15. Sackcloth and Scimitars
Part VI. Born Again: The Renaissance
16. Petrarch Paints the Gods
17. A Cosmopolitan Carnival of Deities
18. Old Gods in the New World
Epilogue: A Marble Head
Appendix: The Twelve Gods
Notes and Further Reading
Index
Acknowledgments
Also by Barbara Graziosi
About the Author
List of Illustrations
Copyright
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