Word: athenas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perseus gets the chance to recapture his youth when Athena re-Gorgonizes Medusa. Only this time Perseus has to pull off the caper without the old tricks -winged shoes, helmet of invisibility, etc. The problem is akin to that of an experienced novelist who cannot use old techniques to write a new novel, and Barth seems to get quite a chuckle...
...behavior of small boys who play with dolls and walk around with their stomachs thrust forward in imitation of their pregnant mothers and in primitive rites and ancient myths. According to these myths, presumably conceived by males, Adam delivered Eve from his rib cage, Zeus gave birth to Athena out of his head, and when Semele was burned to death, Zeus seized Dionysus from her womb and sewed him up in his thigh until the infant had developed...
...role in an aborted plot to free Alexandros Panaghoulis. 32, who was convicted in 1968 of trying to blow up Greek Strongman George Papadopoulos' automobile. Found guilty and sentenced to lesser terms were a lawyer friend of Panaghoulis', a prison guard and two Americans, Mrs. Athena Psychoghiou of Minneapolis, a friend of Panaghoulis' brother, and John Skelton, a Pennsylvania theology student, who received a suspended sentence and immediately left...