Michael D. Konaris, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre de Recherches Historiques, EHESS

Michael Konaris is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre de Recherches Historiques, EHESS.

"With the increasing understanding of the 19th century as a formative period in shaping classics as understood today, Konaris' monograph ... arrives opportunely." -- Alain Gough-Olaya, Journal of Hellenic Studies

"This entertaining book charts how leading scholars explained the Greek gods during a period when classical scholarship was burgeoning, the differences and conflicts between them (often arising from unacknowledged emotional conditioning), and how the arguments developed under the impact of new discoveries and disciplines ... it is a real achievement to have drawn all the threads together and yet made the result so readable." --Colin McDonald, Classics for All

"Thanks to Konaris, students of ancient Greek religion now have a first map of the modern development of their discipline, while intellectual historians of the period will have a better handle of the uses to which ancient Greece and the Greek gods were put ... [this book] will sharpen and deepen your understanding of the Greek gods and Greek religion. It can be warmly recommended." --Simon Trépanier, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"This is a meaty, erudite ... account of several pioneering figures in the modern study of Greek mythology and religion. Konaris' monograph, which does heavy lifting in restoring to visibility some of the "less known scholars who played an important, if unacknowledged, role in the history of the discipline", will certainly be consulted in years to come; there is a wealth of knowledge here." --Dan-El Padilla Peralta, Classical Journal Online