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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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13 Dec 2003 01:04:12 PM |
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'Greek Gods, Human Lives': The Advantages of Polytheism |
'Greek Gods, Human Lives': The Advantages of Polytheism
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/books/review/14TAPLINT.html
By OLIVER TAPLIN
Published: December 14, 2003
Web rumor has it that "Troy," Wolfgang Petersen's big-budget Hollywood
version of the "Iliad," will be godless. The screenwriter David
Benioff has apparently decided to jettison Zeus and the whole Olympian
apparatus. And he has a point, surely. How can you transplant that
part awesome, part trivial extended family of self-centered hedonists
into a realistic movie? Some may recall the gods in "Clash of the
Titans": Laurence Olivier and a cluster of stars looked like World War
I generals at a toga party as they petulantly shoved armies and fleets
around a map of the world. Or suppose you turn the gods into eerie
special effects: they would seem like extraterrestrial psychic forces
from "Star Trek." In our day the Greek gods make humans look like
either pawns or robots.
Mary Lefkowitz
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Joseph Campbell
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