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In this book, preeminent classicist Mary Lefkowitz brings fresh insights to the mythology of ancient Greece, demonstrating that these stories are not only entertaining but also offer crucial lessons about human experience.

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“A great success. . . . Acute and fascinating.”—Jasper Griffin, New York Review of Books

“[The] excellent scholar Mary Lefkowitz . . . briskly retells [some of the] classic myths, not only from Homer, Hesiod, and Greek tragedy, but also those to do with the voyage of the Argonauts and the adventures of Virgil’s Aeneas.”—Peter Green, Los Angeles Times Book Review

“[From] a super-competent, sometimes controversial, and always engaging professional classicist, . . . [a] fascinating study.”—Tracy Lee Simmons, Washington Post

Greek Gods Human Lives

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      Publisher: Yale University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/3/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780300107692, 978-0300107692
      ISBN10: 0300107692

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this book, preeminent classicist Mary Lefkowitz brings fresh insights to the mythology of ancient Greece, demonstrating that these stories are not only entertaining but also offer crucial lessons about human experience.

      Trade Review
      “A great success. . . . Acute and fascinating.”—Jasper Griffin, New York Review of Books

      “[The] excellent scholar Mary Lefkowitz . . . briskly retells [some of the] classic myths, not only from Homer, Hesiod, and Greek tragedy, but also those to do with the voyage of the Argonauts and the adventures of Virgil’s Aeneas.”—Peter Green, Los Angeles Times Book Review

      “[From] a super-competent, sometimes controversial, and always engaging professional classicist, . . . [a] fascinating study.”—Tracy Lee Simmons, Washington Post

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