Introduction
Syrithe Pugh
1. Gods in space and time: Callimachus and Euhemerus
C. L. Caspers
2. Euhemerism in Virgil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Dalida Agri
3. Lactantius’ Euhemerism and its reception
Elizabeth DaPalma Digeser and Avery Barboza
4. Grounding the gods: spreading geographical euhemerism from Servius to Boccaccio
Amanda Gerber
5. Mythography as ethnography. Euhemerism in Giovanni Boccaccio’s explications of Mercury in the Genealogie Deorum Gentilium Libri
David Lummus
6. Tracking Titan from Boccaccio to Milton: euhemerism and Tyrannomachy in the Renaissance
Syrithe Pugh
7. ‘Canonized bones’: Shakespeare, Donne, and the euhemeristic aesthetic in early modern England
Ethan John Guagliardo
8. Totus adest oculis? Approaching euhemerism in Ben Jonson, His Part of King James His Royal and Magnificent Entertainment, 1604
Emma Buckley
9. ‘The Sins of Euemeros against truth and honesty’: Indo-European Comparative Mythology versus Euhemerism in Victorian Britain
Michael D. Konaris
10. Frazer as euhemerist: he case of Osiris
Robert A. Segal
11. Between reception and deception: the perennial problem with euhemerism
Nickolas P. Roubekas
Biography
Syrithe Pugh is Reader in the School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen. Her research focusses on the reception of classical literature during the Renaissance period.
