The Glory of Hera: Greek Mythology and the Greek Family

by Philip Slater

Book Overview

The ancient Athenians were "quarrelsome as friends, treacherous as neighbors, brutal as masters, faithless as servants, shallow as lovers--all of which was in part redeemed by their intelligence and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807057959
• ISBN13: 9780807057957
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 540 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Eye-opening look behind the scenes

I read this book as an undergraduate at Berkeley. The book really opened my mind and affected me deeply. A large part of our civilization is based upon Greek philosophy, and we generally idolize them as intellectual heroes. But Slater's work investigates how the Greek family structure, with its extremely repressed women, affected Greek male psychology, and how this is reflected in their mythic structure. Slater's revelations made me re-think the whole Western investment in the Greek ethos.