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the like, our savage Greek forebears painted the inexplicable with the colors their heart-bound imaginations envisioned. Greeks saw their gods as extensions of themselves (or, in the Judeo-Christian turnaround, ourselves as reflection of God) - whatever - the divinities of the Greeks were passionate and comic, whimsical and inconstant. They were sometimes brilliantly generous, as the titan Prometheus giving mankind the flame; just as often they were perversel

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