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Zygmunt Kubiak

Mythology of Greeks and Romans


This book by the well-known essayist and translator, winner of the last Great Culture Foundation Award, was written thanks to the Swiat Ksiazki club grant. "In writing mythology – I tried to understand in what way spirituality is able to oppose the exceptionally strong totalitarian pressure which is, so it turns out, an immanent feature of the history of mankind. My mythology shows the cruelty in history, presents the nature of power, it has, therefore, an anti-totalitarian intention, content and significance." (Zygmunt Kubiak. Zycie 263/1997) "Kubiak

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