GODS AS SAVIOURS: Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece. Pp. xiv + 319, ills, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Cased, £75, US$100. ISBN: 978-0-19-289411-3 .

Abstract

According to such models, epithets serve to locate a god in a particular place or to identify a specific aspect of a deity. [...]the repeated emphasis on the need to read soteria in ancient Greece without a Christian lens seems slightly unnecessary, given the obvious differences between the Greek and the Christian concepts and the well-established efforts of scholarship in the last decades to break free from Christian-tinted glasses. [...]the broad scope of the investigation – especially when departing from the lexical line of analysis – sometimes risks collapsing the diversity of cases examined.