Bouttios and Late Antique AntiochBouttios and Late Antique Antioch undertakes the exciting, if laborious, task of assembling clues and piecing back together a book that has disappeared from our library of Greek and Roman works. But it does not merely add another author to the bibliography of antiquity and place him in fourth century Antioch. It shows how the gods could be reduced to historical characters, the powerful goddess of Luck turned into a pitiful victim of virgin sacrifice,