Authors:Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet,
Publisher: Zone Books
Keywords: greece, ancient, tragedy, myth
Number of Pages: 538
Published: 1990-08-29
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0942299191
ISBN-13: 9780942299199

Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. Here they provide a disturbing and decidedly nonclassical reading of Greek myth and tragedy and the relationship between them. Jean-Pierre Vernant is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Study of Ancient Religions at the College de France in Paris. Pierre Vidal-Naquet is Director of Studies and Professor of Sociology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris.

Authors:Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet,
Publisher: Ediciones Paidos Iberica
Keywords: greece, origenes, origins, spanish, ancient, tragedy, tragedia, grecia, antigua, myth, mito
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 2002-05
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 8449312469
ISBN-13: 9788449312465

Author: Jean-Pierre Vernant
Publisher: Zone Books
Keywords: greece, ancient, society, myth
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1990-08-29
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0942299175
ISBN-13: 9780942299175

Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece that takes us far from the calm and familiar images of Polykleitos and the Parthenon, and reveals a culture of slavery, of blood sacrifice, of perpetual and ritualized warfare, of ceremonial hunting and ecstasies. In his provocative discussions of various institutions and practices including war, marriage, and the city state, Vernant unveils a complex and previously unexplored intersection of the religious, social, and political structures of ancient Greece. He concludes with a genealogy of the study of myth from antiq

Author: Jean-Pierre Vernant
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: greeks
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 1995-05-01
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0226853837
ISBN-13: 9780226853833

What do we mean when we speak of ancient Greeks? A person from the Archaic period? The war hero celebrated by Homer? Or the fourth century "political animal" described by Aristotle? In this book, leading scholars show what it meant to be Greek during the classical period of Greek civilization. The Greeks offers the most complete portraits available of typical Greek personages from Athens to Sparta, Arcadia, Thessaly and Epirus to the city-states of Asia Minor, to the colonies of the Black Sea, southern Italy, and Sicily. Looking at the citizen, the religious believer, the soldier, the servant,

Author: Jean-Pierre Vernant
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: thought, greek, origins
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1984-11
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0801492939
ISBN-13: 9780801492938

Clean, tight book. Relates the cultural achievement of the ancient Greeks to their physical and social environment. 144pp. Index.

Authors:Jean-Pierre Vernant, Froma I. Zeitlin,
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: immortals, mortals
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 1991-04-01
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 0691019312
ISBN-13: 9780691019314

Jean-Pierre Vernant has profoundly transformed our perceptions of ancient Greece. Published in 1991, this collection of nineteen essays probes deeply into themes of enduring interest--death, the body, the soul, the individual, and relations between mortals and immortals; the mask, the mirror, the image, and the imagination; the self and the other, and, more broadly, the concept of otherness itself, or "alterity.’ "This work will be the definitive Vernant textbook for students and scholars alike in the English-speaking world. . . . Froma Zeitlin is in my view America’s foremost expe

Authors:Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Jean-Pierre Henry, Jacques Arno
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: theory, evolution, darwinian, neo, avatars, gene
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2002-05-31
List price: $205.00
ISBN-10: 0306466163
ISBN-13: 9780306466168

`Why life?’ Questions of this type were for a long time the prerogative of philosophers who left the `how’ question to scientists. Nowadays, Darwin’s successors no longer have any qualms about addressing the `why’ as well as the `how’. Over a century ago, Darwin modestly admitted having ’thrown some light on the origin of species - this mystery of mysteries’. Two major advances in the following decades helped biologists answer many of the questions he left unsolved. The first was the discovery of the laws of heredity, the second that of DNA. Both provi