Greek Gods, Human Lives : What we can learn from myths

by: Lefkowitz, M.

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Greek gods, human lives : what we can learn from myths
Author:Mary R. Lefkowitz

Summary: In Greek Gods, Human Lives, preeminent classicist Mary Lefkowitz reintroduces readers to the literature of ancient Greece. Lefkowitz demonstrates that the Greek myths, although endlessly entertaining, are never frivolous. These stories - as told by Homer, Ovid, Virgil, and many others - offer crucial lessons about human experience. Greek mythology makes vivid the fact that the gods control every aspect of the lives of mortals, but not in ways that modern audiences have properly understood." "We can learn much from these myths, Lefkowitz shows, if we understand that they are stories about religious experience - about the meaning of divinity, the nature of justice, and the limitations of human knowledge. These myths spoke to ancient audiences and helped them to comprehend their world. With Mary Lefkowitz as an interpreter, these myths speak to us as well.

Contents:
Origins
Gods among mortals
The Gods in the Iliad
The Gods in the Odyssey
The Gods in Drama I: Apollo and Orestes
The Gods in Drama II: Apollo, Athena, and others
The Gods in Hellenistic poetry
The Gods in the Aeneid
Changes
Conclusion: The Gods in our lives

xi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Greek Gods, Human Lives : What we can learn from myths

by: Lefkowitz, M.

• ISBN-13: 9780300101454 / 978-0-300-10145-4
• ISBN-03: 0300101457 / 0-300-10145-7
• Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2003

Price: 45,00 EURO

1 copy in stock