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Myth and Thought among the Greeks (Paperback)
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Myth and Thought among the Greeks (Paperback)
Series: Zone Books
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A classic work that rereads questions of "muthos" and "logos" in
multifaceted contexts. When Jean-Pierre Vernant first published
Myth and Thought among the Greeks in 1965, it transformed the field
of ancient Greek scholarship, calling forth a new way to think
about Greek myth and thought. In eighteen essays-three of which,
along with a new preface, are translated into English for the first
time-Vernant freed the subject of ancient Greece from its
philological chains and reread the questions of "muthos" and
"logos" within multifaced and transdisciplinary contexts-of
religion, ritual, and art, philosophy, science, social and economic
institutions, and historical psychology. A major contribution to
both the humanities and the social sciences, Myth and Thought among
the Greeks aims to come to terms with a single, essential question:
How were individual persons in ancient Greece inseparable from a
social and cultural environment of which they were simultaneously
the creators and products? Seven themes organize this stellar
work-from "Myth Structures" and "Mythic Aspects of Memory and Time"
to "The Organization of Space," "Work and Technological Thought,"
and "Personal Identity and Religion." A master storyteller, an
innovative, precise, and original thinker, Vernant continues to
change the narratives we tell about the histories of civilizations
and the histories of human beings in their individual and
collective identities.
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