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Myth and Society in Ancient Greece
by Jean-Pierre Vernant
Binding: Paperback, 280 pages
Publisher: Zone Books
Weight: 1.1 pound
Dimension: H: 0.9 x L: 8.8 x W: 5.9 inches
ISBN 10: 0942299175
ISBN 13: 9780942299175
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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 antiquity to the present, and offers a critique of structuralism.

Jean-Pierre Vernant is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Study of Ancient Religions at the College de France in Paris.

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