Myth and society in ancient Greece

by: Vernant, J.-P.

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Myth and society in ancient Greece

Author: Jean-Pierre Vernant

In this groundbreaking study, Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece. Myth and Society in Ancient Greece takes us far from the calm and familiar images of Polykleitos and the Parthenon to reveal a fundamentally other culture — one of slavery, of masks and death, of scapegoats, of ritual hunting, and of ecstasies.

Vernant?s provocative discussions of various institutions and practices (including war, marriage, and sacrifice) detail the complex intersection of the religious, social, and political structures of ancient Greece. The book concludes with Vernant?s authoritative genealogy of the study of myth from Antiquity to structuralism and beyond. “Myth,” he writes, “brings into operation a form of logic which we may describe, unlike the logic of noncontradiction of the philosophers, as a logic of the ambiguous and the equivocal.”

Series:
University Paperback, 775

x, 242 pages ; 23 cm

Subjects:
Gesellschaft
Greece
Greece Social conditions
Greece Social life and customs
Grèce Conditions sociales
Grèce Conditions sociales Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C
Grèce Moeurs et coutumes Antiquité
Grèce Mœurs et coutumes
Griechenland
Institutions sociales Grèce Antiquité
Manners and customs
Mythe
Mythologie grecque
Mythology, Greek
Mythos
Social conditions

Translation of: Mythe et société en Grèce ancienne

Myth and society in ancient Greece

by: Vernant, J.-P.

• ISBN-13: 9780416338300 / 978-0-416-33830-0
• ISBN-03: 0416338305 / 0-416-33830-5
• Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1982

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Konservieren oder Restaurieren: Die Restaurierung griechischer Vasen von der Antike bis heute

by: Bentz, M. Kastner, U.

• ISBN-13: 9783406564826
• ISBN-03: 3406564828
• C.H. Beck, Munchen, 2007