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Acknowledgements page viiNote on abbreviations ix

Introduction 1

1 The theology of progonikon hamartēma 22De decem dubitationibus circa Providentiam 22De sera numinis vindicta 39Confrontations and translations 54Isaak Sebastokrator 65William of Moerbeke 70

2 Haereditarium piaculum and inherited guilt 80Parentum peccata 82Domestications 90Grotius 97Lomeier 112The scholarship of inherited guilt I 120The scholarship of inherited guilt II 133

3 The earliest record: exōleia in Homer and Hesiod 159Hesiod 159Homer 177

4 Sympotic theologies: Alcaeus, Solon, and Theognis 206Alcaeus 210Solon 226Theognidea 249

5 Tracking divine punishment in Herodotus 275The oath of Glaukos 278The wrath of Talthybios 296The Enagees 306Croesus and Solon 325

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6 Tragic reconfigurations: Labdacids 344Seven against Thebes 351Antigone 362Phoenissae 376Oedipus at Colonus 386

7 Tragic reconfigurations: Atridae 394Oresteia 394Iphigenia in Tauris 416Orestes 425Conclusion 438

Conclusion 446

Bibliography 473Index locorum 539General index 545

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