Table des matières

• 1. Beyond the ‘Animal god’
• 2. Terminology, categorization and unity
• 3. Greeks and the non-human animal
• 4. Mixanthropy across ancient cultures: Egypt and the Near East
• 5. Mixanthropy in Greek culture
• 5.1. A world of decoration
• 5.2. The retinue of Dionysos
• 5.3. Myth and the monster: the combat motif
• 5.4. Mixanthropic thaumata exhibited
• 6. Explicit comment on mixanthropic deities
• 7. Aims and structure of the book
• 8. A brief note on ancient sources used

Section One : Cults and composition of mixanthropic deities

Chapter I

• 1. Marine mixanthropes: Proteus, Thetis, Eurynome, the Sirens and Glaukos
• 2. Acheloos and other river gods

Chapter II

• 1. Horse mixanthropes: Cheiron and Demeter Melaina
• 2. From Arkadia to Attica: Pan
• 3. Mixanthropy at the heart of Athens: Kekrops
• 4. Dionysos: a god on the borders

Chapter III

• 1. Cult
• 2. Composition

Section Two : Movement, absence and loss

Chapter IV

• 1. The deity within the landscape
• 1.1. The mountain cave: Phigalian Demeter
• 1.2. The cave as junction of departure: Thessalian Cheiron
• 1.3. The cave as cult-site
• 1.4. The sea: Thetis
• 1.5. Coastal jumping-off points: Glaukos and associates
• 1.6. Proteus and the sea-cave
• 2. The image within the cult: Pausanias and lost statues
• 3. The scourging of Pan: the mixanthropic deity and the pharmakos
• 4. Expulsion and burial
• Expulsion, withdrawal and absence: conclusion

Chapter V

• Introduction
• 1. A growing scarcity?
• 1.1. Transfer and hypostasis
• 1.2. Anthropomorphisation
• 2. Time
• 2.1. Mixanthropes and the past
• 2.2. The death of Pan
• 3. Place
• 3.1. The Greek world
• 3.2. Outside the Greek world
• Time and place: conclusion

Chapter VI

• Introduction
• 1. Mixanthropic imagery in Arkadian cult
• 2. Arkadia: a place of uncontaminated survivals?
• The fallacy of Arkadia: conclusion

Section Three : Mixanthropy and representation

Chapter VII

• 1. Representing the unrepresentable
• 2. The rôle of metamorphosis in the mythology of mixanthropic deities
• 2.1. Demeter Melaina and Demeter Erinys
• 2.2. Cheiron
• 2.3. Pan
• 2.4. Dionysos
• 2.5. The shape-changers
• Conclusion
• 1. Recipes for mixanthropy
• 2. Mixanthropy, metamorphosis and divinity