The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions

CORINNE BONNET is a Professor of Greek History at the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès. She has published numerous books and articles on the multicultural dimension of religious practices in the ancient Mediterranean and is also the Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant Mapping Ancient Polytheisms focused on the Greek and Semitic divine onomastics.

• Introduction. In the mirror of Vertumnus; 1. 'To the Immortals everything is possible': portraits of Homeric gods between savagery and empathy Corinne Bonnet; 2. All sides of the moon: a Greek incantation from late antique Egypt Thomas Galoppin; 3. 'May the Force be with you!'. Men and gods in battle in the Phoenician world Maria Bianco; 4. Dionysos in the mirror of Poseidon: crossed onomastic portraits Sylvain Lebreton; 5. Lord of the Universe, the World and Eternity: Gods with unlimited powers in Palmyra? Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider; 6. This is not a name: the polyvalence of divine names in Mesopotamia Marinella Ceravolo; 7. The sword and the patera: Zeus Helios Great Sarapis Laurent Bricault; 8. A travelling portrait: the Baal of Tyre, from one rock to another Elodie Guillon; 9. Pantheus, a 'total' god in the Greek and Roman world Ginevra Benedetti; 10. 'I will be who I will be' (Exod. 3:14). Portrait of a deity that would be nameless and imageless Fabio Porzia; 11. Golden locks among the Greeks, or the hair secrets of the beautiful Apollo Adeline Grand-Clément; 12. Athena – Artemis. An attempt to outline two sisters by their epiclesis Pierre Brulé.

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