Ebook: Coping with the gods: wayward readings in Greek theology

Turning to the contents of the present study, it first should be noted
that the book may be understood as being divided into two parts even
if it is not presented as such in visual form. The central theme of the
first three chapters can be summarized as ‘the systematics’ or ‘syntax’
of the divine world: how did polytheism work, how did (the) Greeks
make sense of the inscrutable divine meddling in and with human life,
and how did monistic and pluralistic conceptions of the divine world
relate? The latter three chapters are concerned with questions about
divine nature and qualities, more especially with correspondences
and tensions between human and divine features in the nature of the
gods.