Greek Gods, Human Lives by Mary Lefkowitz
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.
“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
“[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
Mary Lefkowitz is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Department of Classical Studies, Wellesley College. She has taught a highly popular introductory Greek mythology course for more than twenty-five years and has written extensively on ancient history and mythology. Among her books is Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History, which led to appearances on national radio talk shows and on 60 Minutes as well as to interviews in the Boston Globe and the Washington Post.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300107692 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300107692 |
| Title | Greek Gods, Human Lives |
| Author | Mary Lefkowitz |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2005-05-10 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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