Mary Lefkowitz is Mellon Professor in the Humanities, emeritus, at Wellesley College, and the author of Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn From Myths (Yale University Press).
The great Renaissance paintings help us remember, and misunderstand, the ancient myths.
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