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Books by Professor Mary Lefkowitz






History Lesson
A Race Odyssey
by Mary R. Lefkowitz, Professor Mary Lefkowitz
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2009 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-15126-8, ISBN: 0-300-15126-8

"In the early 1990s, Classics professor Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley College was teaching his students that Greek culture had been stolen from Africa and that Jews were responsible for the slave trade. This book tells the disturbing story of what happened when she spoke out.Lefkowitz quickly learned that to investigate the origin and meaning of myths composed by people who have for centuries b ..."






History Lesson(1st Edition)
A Race Odyssey
by Mary R. Lefkowitz, Professor Mary Lefkowitz
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2008 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-12659-4, ISBN: 0-300-12659-X

"In the early 1990s, Classics professor Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley College was teaching his students that Greek culture had been stolen from Africa and that Jews were responsible for the slave trade. This book tells the disturbing story of what happened when she spoke out. Lefkowitz quickly learned that to investigate the origin and meaning of myths composed by people who have for centuries ..."






Greek Gods, Human Lives(3rd Edition)
What We Can Learn from Myths
by Mary R. Lefkowitz, Professor Mary Lefkowitz
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2005 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-10769-2, ISBN: 0-300-10769-2

"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. In Greek Gods, Human Lives, preeminent classicist Mary Lefkowitz reintroduces readers to the literature of ancient Greece. Lefko ..."






Greek Gods, Human Lives(1st Edition)
What We Can Learn from Myths
by Mary R. Lefkowitz, Professor Mary Lefkowitz
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2003 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-10145-4, ISBN: 0-300-10145-7

"`The myths, as the ancient authors related them, do not offer hope so much as a means of understanding.' Greek and Roman narratives are full of discussion and descriptions of the actions of the gods and their influence over human lives and, in this study, Mary Lefkowitz explores the role of gods and divine action in some of these texts. Essentially, she aims to show what writers were trying to tell their audience about the gods, writing ..."






Heroines and Hysterics
by Mary R. Lefkowitz, Professor Mary Lefkowitz
Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 1982 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-37160-9, ISBN: 0-312-37160-8






Women in Greek Myth(Reprint)
by Professor Mary R. Lefkowitz
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 1986 by The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-3367-0, ISBN: 0-8018-3367-1






Women's Life in Greece and Rome(1st Edition)
A Source Book in Translation
by Professor Mary R. Lefkowitz, Maureen B. Fant
Paperback, 294 Pages, Published 1982 by The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-2866-9, ISBN: 0-8018-2866-X






Women's Life in Greece and Rome
by Professor Mary R. Lefkowitz, Maureen B. Fant
Hardcover, 294 Pages, Published 1982 by The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-2865-2, ISBN: 0-8018-2865-1






Lives of the Greek Poets
by Professor Mary R. Lefkowitz
Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 1981 by The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-2748-8, ISBN: 0-8018-2748-5






Women's Life in Greece and Rome
a Source Book in Translation. (Second Edition)
by Mary R. Lefkowitz, Maureen B. Fant
Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 1992 by Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-4474-4, ISBN: 0-8018-4474-6






Women's Life in Greece and Rome(3rd Edition)
A Source Book in Translation
by Professor Mary R. Lefkowitz, Maureen B. Fant, Maureen Brown Fant, Maryr Lefkowitz
Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 2005 by Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-8309-5, ISBN: 0-8018-8309-1






Women's Life in Greece and Rome(3rd Edition)
A Source Book in Translation
by Professor Mary R. Lefkowitz, Maureen B. Fant, Maureen Brown Fant
Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2005 by Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-8310-1, ISBN: 0-8018-8310-5






Women's Life in Greece and Rome(4th Edition)
A Source Book in Translation
by Professor Maureen B. Fant, Mary R. Lefkowitz
Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2016 by Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-2113-1, ISBN: 1-4214-2113-5






Women in Greek Myth(2nd Edition)
by Professor Mary R. Lefkowitz, Mary Rosenthal Lefkowitz
Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2007 by Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-8650-8, ISBN: 0-8018-8650-3

"In the first edition of Women in Greek Myth, Mary R. Lefkowitz convincingly challenged narrow, ideological interpretations of the roles of female characters in Greek mythology. Where some scholars saw the Amazons as the last remnant of a forgotten matriarchy, Clytemnestra as a frustrated individualist, and Antigone as an oppressed revolutionary, Lefkowitz argued that such views were justified neither by the myths themselves nor by the r ..."






History Lesson
by Professor Mary Lefkowitz
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