Mortals and Immortals: Collected Essays (Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology) - Softcover

Vernant, Jean-Pierre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691019312 ISBN 13: 9780691019314

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Mortals and Immortals Published in 1991, this collection of nineteen essays delves into themes such as: death, the body, the soul, the individual, and relations between mortals and immortals; the mask, the mirror, the image, and the imagination; the self and the other, and the concept of otherness itself, or "alterity." Full description

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Review:

"Vernant's work ranges across the entire field of ancient Greek religion, philosophy, and literature and joins exacting philological scholarship to exciting and innovative theoretical paradigms. Not since Jane Harrison and Gilbert Murray has a classicist commanded the attention of non-classicists in the way Vernant has over the last twenty-five years."--Choice

Synopsis:

Jean-Pierre Vernant has profoundly transformed our perceptions of ancient Greece. Published in 1991, this collection of nineteen essays probes deeply into themes of enduring interest - death, the body, the soul, the individual, and relations between mortals and immortals; the mask, the mirror, the image, and the imagination; the self and the other, and, more broadly, the concept of otherness itself, or "alterity."

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0691019312
• ISBN 13: 9780691019314
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356
• Editor: Zeitlin Froma I.