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Author:Mary Lefkowitz
Euripides and the Gods
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...- $35.99
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Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths
Why the Greek myths, more than those of any other culture, continue to captivate us 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...- $42.00
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History Lesson: A Race Odyssey
From the author of Not Out of Africa comes a gripping first-person account of the tyranny of political correctness in academe In the early 1990s, Classics professor Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley College was teaching his students that...- $22.00
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Not Out of Africa: How "Afrocentrism" Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History
Not Out of Africa has sparked widespread debate over the teaching of revisionist history in schools and colleges. Was Socrates black? Did Aristotle steal his ideas from the library in Alexandria? Do we owe the underlying tenets of our democratic civilizaiton to the Africans?...- $21.99
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The Greek Histories: The Sweeping History of Ancient Greece as Told by Its First Chroniclers: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch
From the leading scholars behind The Greek Plays, a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of ancient Greece as recorded by its first chroniclers "Just the thing to remind us that human history, though lamentably a...- $22.00
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The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world's most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, Electra, Medea, Antigone, and Oedipus the King Featuring translations by Emily Wilson, Frank Nisetich, Sarah Ruden, Rachel...- $25.00
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