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Indexes I. Names and Subjects INDEXES I. NAMES AND SUBJECTS acclamation 18, 195, 196,201,204,212, atheism 124, 131, 197, 199, 201 215, 235, 243, 244, 248, 250 Ath~na 191 adhesion 35, 194 Attis 107, 108 Adon 103 autonomy 58, 59, 61, 72-82 Adonia 104, 160 Bacchanalia 160, 161 Adoniasts 103 beggary (ritual) 110 Adonis 103-1 05 belief in gods 124, 125 gardens of 104 Bendis 111-113, 156, 186 mourning for 104 benefactors 70 advertisement (miracles used as) 90, 191 bipartite formulas 234, 235 adynaton 225, 226, 229, 247 blasphemy 175 (see also: asebeia) Aeschines (and his mother) 114, 117, 136, blindness (as divine penalty) 202 149, 159, 162, 174 bondage 49, 84, 166 afterlife (promise of happiness in) 4 7, 152, by fate 86, 87 153, 155, 157' 193 born from himself 227 Agdistis (Philadelphian cult) 201 branding 90 Agrionia 143 bread 167 Aion 217, 228 bull-carrying 139 Alexander the Great 57, 67 as liberator 57, 60 cannibalism 9, 143, 144 as tyrant-slayer 57, 60 chains see: bondage ambiguity 1-35, 177, 188, passim charismatic religion 182-189 Dionysiac 132-134, 137, 149, 180, Christian religion 187, 188, 192 181, 186, 187 cognitive dissonance 4-13 Ammon 102 coherence (myth of) 14, 18, 22 anachronism 178, 179, 181 coincidentia oppositorum 89, 94, 98, 220, 221 anadiplosis 211 confession (of sins) 65, 66, 195, 198, 200, anaphora 43, 206, 209-211, 224, 248 203, 204 Anaxagoras 124, 125 confession texts (Maeonian) 65, 66, 195, ancestral cults 130, 162 198, 200, 203, 204 anomaly 2, 3 congruence (strain towards) 14 A nthesteria 14 7 conspiracy (rituals used in) 144 anthropophagy see: cannibalism contempt of god(s) 200 antisocial cults 134 context 17, 18 Aphrodite 104, 128 contradiction 3, 7 Ourania 122 conversion 35, 91, 172, 182, 185, 194, 198 Apollo 48, 205 corruption of women see: women (seduc- Apollonios of Tyana 199 tion of) aprosdoketon 244, 245, 250 cosmopolitan gods 164, 190 Archedemos of Thera 196 Cybele 105-111, 117, 180, 186, 187 Ares 63 arrival in Athens 106, 107, 156, 159, aretalogy 41-52, 63, 66, 72, 85, 87, 88, 162, 163, 199, 202 167, 192-196, 202, 203, 206, 209-211, Hellenization of 108, 110, 173 213, 215, 216, 219, 220, 223, 242, 245 identification with Demeter/Rhea Artemis 112, 113, 123 108, 109, 173 Asclepius 102, 191, 198, 200 astrology 87 darkness 169 INDEXES 261 death as moira 46 filter (in perception) 3, 74 Demeter 42, 108, 109, 167, 169, 173, 177 foreign gods/cults (introduction of) 102, democracy 15, 19, 21, 61, 76, 77, 92 109, 116-120, 123-131, 156, 157, 160, derailment (in ritual) 142-144 173, 185 destiny see: fate as a disease 160 devotion (personal) 91, 182, 183, 193, 194, identification with magic 116-118, 196, 198 121' 131' 156, 163 Diagoras of Melos 8, 197 law against 128 Dionysiac imagery 146-148 persecution/prohibition/rejection of Dionysos 28, 85, 114, 119, 121, 131-205, 116-120,122-131,161-163,170,171 237 tolerance of 128 ambiguous god 132-134, 137, 159 Fortuna 49, 87 (see also: fate, Tuche) Bakch(e)ios 139, 140, 145 bondage by 86 as a bull 139, 166 videns 49, 88 god of epiphany 133, 137-139, 157, free(dom) 15, 19, 21, 72-79,81,82,86, 88, 165, 172 89 (see also: liberation, liberty, eleutheria) inventor of viticulture 139 Fiirstenspiegel 6 7 as liberator 85, 139, 166, 167, 193, 194, 197 Geryon 246, 247 mask god 147 gladiators 207-251 mystic aspects of 150-155 names of 207 Omadios 133 Glaukothea (mother of Aeschines) 115, 116 pillar god 147 gods Diopeithes 124, 125, 128, 129 as guardians 88 disbelief65, 124, 125, 161, 198, 200 as kings/despots 63-65, 92, 193, 204 dissonance see: cognitive as liberators 61, 62, 88, 92, 193 dream instruction (divine) 40, 106, 192, as victors 171, 200, 202 197 gratitude 83 dreams (interpretation of) 144 great (as acclamation/predicate of gods) drunkenness 156, 160, 163 164, 165, 167, 169, 172, 173, 190, 194-196, 204, 234, 235, 238 Ecole de Paris 28-30 ecstasy 106, 115, 134, 135, 139, 141, 145, happiness (in afterlife) 152, 153, 155, 157, 147, 149, 157, 166, 168, 172, 186 193 Ego-proclamations 43, 44, 190 (see also: ego in the presence of god 167, 168, 172, eimi) 181, 193 elaphe longissima 8 Harmodius (and Aristogeiton) 54-56, 93 enfants prodiges 221 cult of 55 Epidaurian miracles 191, 200, 202, 203 statue of 55, 60 epiphany 138, 139, 165, 172, 190, 191 Harmodius blow 62 Eros 44, 63 Harpokrates 216, 237 errors in ritual 14 2-144 Hecate 102 eulogy 192, 193, 245 Helios 207, 222, 223 expressive communication 18 Hellenistic religion 190-205 henotheism 1, 35-37, 194, 195, 198, 205, failing prophecies 6 232, 235 faith 198 Heracles 61, 62 fate 44, 49 (see also: Fortuna, heimarmene, as exemplum for kings 61 moira) as tyrant slayer 61 , 62 arbitrariness of 49 Tyrian 121, 190 bondage by 87 hereditary priests 40 inescapable 47 Hermes 206-251 tyranny of 87-89 Hermes Trismegistos 212, 222, 231, victory over 4 7, 48, 84, 87, 88 237-242, 250 father (as predicate of kings and gods) 70 Hermetism 87, 212-215, 236, 241 fetters see: bondage Hero cult 55 .
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