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Product Description: Modern readers find it hard to come to terms with the gods in Euripides' dramas. Readers try to dismiss them as a literary convention. Stage productions leave them out, especially in the cases when they appear ex machina. Instead, they place disproportionate emphasis on the harsh criticisms of the gods uttered by some of the characters in the dramas, and have sought to interpret Euripides ironically, viewing his portrayal of the cruel and capricious gods as a means of drawing attention to the deficiencies of ancient Greek religion...read more
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9780199752058 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 30, 2015), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Modern readers find it hard to come to terms with the gods in Euripides' dramas.
Hardcover:
9780300126594 | Yale Univ Pr, April 28, 2008, cover price $25.00
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9780300151268 | Yale Univ Pr, April 28, 2009, cover price $20.00
Product Description: The mythology of ancient Greece has fascinated readers for two millennia and has formed the basis of Western civilization. The Greek gods are a perennial source of delight because they seem so much like us: in their rages, their love affairs, and their obsession with honor, the gods often appear all too human...read more
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9780300101454 | Yale Univ Pr, October 11, 2003, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Insightful and fun, this new guide to an ancient mythology explains why the Greek gods and goddesses are still so captivating to us, revisiting the work of Homer, Ovid, Virgil, and Shakespeare in search of the essence of these stories.
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9780300107692 | Yale Univ Pr, May 10, 2005, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: The mythology of ancient Greece has fascinated readers for two millennia and has formed the basis of Western civilization.
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9780465098378 | Basic Books, January 1, 1996, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Argues that the Afrocentric movement is substituting myth for historical research and undermining the true accomplishments of Africa, and explains why history must be based on research and fact, and not on politics
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9780465098385 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, July 9, 1997), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Argues that the Afrocentric movement is substituting myth for historical research and undermining the true accomplishments of Africa, and explains why history must be based on research and fact, and not on politics
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