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Article: From Many Gods to One: Divine Action in Renaissance Epic.(Book review)
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- Christianity and Literature
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- January 1, 2009
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From Many Gods to One: Divine Action in Renaissance Epic. By Tobias Gregory. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. ISBN 0-226-30755-7. Pp. 240. $30.00.
The Greek and Roman gods have always been amenable to literary treatment, figuring in epic, tragedy, comedy, and prose narratives in close association with human beings. Gods have regularly motivated, thwarted, promoted, and otherwise complicated the lives of their mortal favorites and opponents, although thoughtful readers in antiquity did not hesitate to criticize the Olympian characters' behavior, their inconsistencies, their morally fallible choices, and their petty emotional outbursts. ...