Gods in Euripides

Preface 1 Poetry, epistemic shift, and the representations of gods 1.1. The process of epistemic shift 1.2. The relevance of poetry 1.3. The polycentric character of Greek cults 1.4. The Homeric-Hesiodic paradigm 1.5. The possibility of a Greek Enlightenment 2. The tragic genre 2.1. Tragedy in its context 2.2. Tragedy as spectacle 2.3. The megatext of tragedy 2.4. Modalities of discourse 2.5. Some specific cases 3 First exemplification: the Tragic Heracles 3.1. General questions 3.2. Heracles the character 3.3. The conflict surrounding the altar 3.4. The importance of "tyche" 3.5. The debate between Amphytrion and Lycus 3.6. Heracles' return 3.7. The catastrophe 3.8. A new ethical model 4 Second exemplification: the treatment of Hippolytus and Phaedra 4.1. Hippolytus and cult 4.2. The "philia" of man and goddess 4.3. Hippolytus' exceptional "physis" 4.4. Phaedra's rhesis 4.5. The transformation into cult figure 4.6. The gods Bibliography Index Locorum