Euripides and the gods / Mary Lefkowitz.

By:

Lefkowitz, Mary R, 1935- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Onassis series in Hellenic culturePublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 294 pages .)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780190463113
0190463112
9780190463106
0190463104

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

882/.01 23

LOC classification:

PA3978 .L44 2016

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Contents:

Euripides, Socrates, and other Sophists -- Piety and impiety in Euripides' Heracles -- Athena -- Apollo -- Other gods -- Gods behind the scenes.

Summary: Although readers continue to believe that in his dramas Euripides was questioning the nature and sometimes even the existence of the gods, and that through his dramas he sought to reveal the flaws in the traditional religious beliefs of his own time, this book argues that instead of seeking to undermine ancient religion, Euripides is describing with a brutal realism what the gods are like, and reminding his mortal audience of the limitations of human understanding.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Euripides, Socrates, and other Sophists -- Piety and impiety in Euripides' Heracles -- Athena -- Apollo -- Other gods -- Gods behind the scenes.

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Although readers continue to believe that in his dramas Euripides was questioning the nature and sometimes even the existence of the gods, and that through his dramas he sought to reveal the flaws in the traditional religious beliefs of his own time, this book argues that instead of seeking to undermine ancient religion, Euripides is describing with a brutal realism what the gods are like, and reminding his mortal audience of the limitations of human understanding.

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