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Euripides and the Gods by Mary Lefkowitz

Euripides and the Gods Mary Lefkowitz ebook
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780199752058
Page: 320

I sacrifice to no god save myself — And to my belly, greatest of deities. Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. This unit, Euripides Alcestis, is an introductory approach to the Through the trickery of his friend, the god Apollo, Admetus escapes Thanatos, Death. Polytus and Hecuba of Euripides, Baltimore 1987, especially pp. What was shocking to his contemporaries was that Euripides extended this psychological analysis even to the gods. Euripides (Greek: Εὐριπίδης; c. Euripides lived in a time when the large cast of Greek gods, heroes and demigods still formed the basis of popular religion. On this aspect of Euripides' présentation of the gods see F. Modern readers find it hard to come to terms with the gods in Euripides' dramas. The Bacchae (406) is probably one of Euripides' best plays. Readers try to dismiss them as a literary convention. EURIPIDES (480-406 B.C.), the great Greek dramatic poet, was born in 480 B.C., on the Neither gods nor heroes commanded all the old unquestioning faith. Dionysus is a young god that was kicked out of the house of Cadmus.