Eidinow Esther - The Oxford handbook of ancient Greek religion

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THE editors would like to thank Robin Osborne for his advice and encouragement at the beginning of the project; and Verity Platt and Georgia Petridou for help with photo rights. We are grateful to all, past and present, at Oxford University Press: Hilary OShea, who first showed interest and offered such helpful guidance when we approached her; Taryn Das Neves, Annie Rose, and the OUP Picture Research team for all their help; and Kumar Athiappan, Joy Mellor, Alison Miles, Joanna North, Sudhakar Sandacoumar, and Elizabeth Stone who saw the book through editing and production.

Finally, we would also like to thank all our contributors for bringing their expertise to the handbook and for their patience in the process of its production.

Esther Eidinow

Julia Kindt

ESTHER EIDINOW AND JULIA KINDT

ROBIN OSBORNE

THOMAS HARRISON

EMILY KEARNS

VINCIANE PIRENNE-DELFORGE AND GABRIELLA PIRONTI

MILETTE GAIFMAN

HANNAH WILLEY

RENAUD GAGN

CLAIRE TAYLOR

CAITLN E. BARRETT

DAVID MARTINEZ

RICHARD P. MARTIN

TANJA S. SCHEER

CLAUDE CALAME

ROBERT FOWLER

RICK BENITEZ AND HAROLD TARRANT

MICHAEL SCOTT

MATTHEW DILLON

KOSTAS VLASSOPOULOS

CHRISTY CONSTANTAKOPOULOU

MICHAEL A. FLOWER

RALPH ANDERSON

HUGH BOWDEN

ANDREJ PETROVIC

SUSAN DEACY

CAROLINA LPEZ-RUIZ

GUNNEL EKROTH

EMMANUEL VOUTIRAS

GIULIA SFAMENI GASPARRO

IVANA PETROVIC

HENDRIK S. VERSNEL

FRED NAIDEN

SARAH ILES JOHNSTON

VERITY PLATT

FRITZ GRAF

SARAH HITCH

JAN-MATHIEU CARBON

RADCLIFFE G. EDMONDS III

GILLIAN SHEPHERD

MAYA MURATOV

JAN N. BREMMER

KATHRIN KLEIBL

RACHEL MAIRS

LISA RAPHALS

WE have used the Greek spelling of authors and names except in cases in which the Latinized spelling is more established.

For abbreviations of ancient authors and their works, please refer to S. Hornblower, A. Spawforth, and E. Eidinow, eds. 2012. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 4th edn, Oxford; for journal abbreviations, please refer to LAnne Philologique; any other abbreviations used are listed below.