Sir: So the Clinton affair rumbles on. My (1953) edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica says: "To appreciate the Homeric Zeus, we must distinguish the lower mythologic aspect of him, in which he appears as an amorous and capricious deity lacking often in dignity and the higher religious aspect in which he is conceived as the all-father."
JOE JACOB
London WC2
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