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Myth and Society in Ancient Greece
by Jean-Pierre Vernant
Binding: Hardcover, 2nd edition, 280 pages
Publisher: Zone Books
List Price: USD $38.95
Weight: 139
Dimension: H: 0.75 x L: 9.3 x W: 0.5 inches
ISBN 10: 0942299167
ISBN 13: 9780942299168
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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 ecstasies. Vernant's provocative discussion of various institutions and practices including war, marriage, and sacrifice details 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. Jean Pierre Vernant is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Study of Ancient Religions at the Coll ge de France in Paris. Janet Lloyd is a translator and writer living in England. Distributed for Zone Books.

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