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Jean Pierre-Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. In this work, published here as a single volume, the authors present a disturbing and decidedly non-classical reading of Greek tragedy that insists on its radical discontinuity with our own outlook and with our social, aesthetic, and psychological categories. Originally published in French in two volumes, this new single-volume edition includes revised essays from volume one and is the first English translation of both volumes.Pierre Vidal-Naquet is Director of Studies and Professor of Sociology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. Jean Pierre-Vernant is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Study of Ancient Religions at the Collège de France. Janet Lloyd is a translator and writer living in England. Distributed for Zone Books.
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Lionel Tenneroni
reviewed Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece on October 16, 2010 Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece
These essays are very well done and a good read for anyone with an interest in Greek myth and Tragedy. The essays take the approach that the tragedies of Oedipus and Aeschylus must be understood in the context of their cultural development. I am particularly attracted to this type of interpretation, since I am not a big believer in a timeless literary truth. What Vernant and Naquet show is that these texts are not so much timeless as timely--a reflection of the emergence of the Greek city state and the particular moral and political dilemmas this cultural transformation poses.
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