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Religion in Euripides - Harvey Yunis: A New Creed: Fundamental Religious Beliefs in the Athenian Polls and Euripidean Drama. (Hypomnemata, 91.) Pp. 188. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1988. Paper, DM 45.

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David Bain
David Bain
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The Classical Review , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , October 1990 , pp. 221 - 223
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1 Discussion of interpretation of the notorious lines Heracles 1341ff. would take up the whole of a review. I am broadly in agreement with the view of Stinton, T. C. W. restated in Greek Tragedy and its Legacy (Essays presented to D. J. Conacher), Toronto, 1986, 91 and 99 n. 120.Google Scholar

2 Most recently it has been suggested that the doubts expressed about the nature of divinity are a reflection of the weakness of the characters or, in other words, a reflection of Euripides' famous realism (so Lelkowitz, M. R., CQ 39 [1989], 77Google Scholar in an article entitled ‘‘Impiety’ and ‘Atheism’ in Euripides’, a pendant to her earlier ‘Was Euripides an Atheist?’ SIFC [Set. iii] 5 [1987], 149ff.).