Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths - Hardcover

Lefkowitz, Mary R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300101457 ISBN 13: 9780300101454

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2003

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Book by Lefkowitz Professor Mary

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"This thoughtful and illuminating book deals with a very important set of topics in Greek literature and thought: what is the real role of the Gods? How important are they, and how seriously are they meant to be taken? And is it all, in some sense, true?" Jasper Griffin, Oxford University

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In "Greek Gods, Human Lives", classicist Mary Lefkowitz reintroduces readers to the literature of ancient Greece. Lefkowitz demonstrates that these stories, although endlessly entertaining, are never frivolous. The Greek myths - 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.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0300101457
• ISBN 13: 9780300101454
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352