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Messages from the gods.(Book Review)

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Mary Lefkowitz Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn From Myths. Yale University Press, 288 pages, $30

The Iliad, one of the oldest Greek narratives to have survived, depicts the gods themselves using mythology to help to understand, or at least accept, their own misfortunes and the limits of their freedom to act. In his greatest show of strength, Diomedes wounds the goddess Aphrodite. With the help of Iris, she makes her way to the left side of the Trojan battlefield, where she finds her brother Ares. She persuades him to lend her his chariot, which is pulled by two horses with gold frontlets. With Iris to handle the reins, she goes to Olympus, where she ...

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