Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths.(Book review)

The Historian | September 22, 2005| | Copyright

Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths. By Mary Lefkowitz. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 288. $30.00.)

This is an important book that emphasizes the centrality of the divine in ancient Greek stories--at a time when the popular media tell these myths without gods. Mary Lefkowitz uses literary sources to point out the "true" role of the gods, which modern re-tellers of Greek myths often distort for their own purposes. She argues that the gods are central to ancient Greek myths; they do not care for humans unless a specific matter ...

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