Mortals & Immortals – Collected Essays - Hardcover

Zeitlin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691068313 ISBN 13: 9780691068312

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1991

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."

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Review:

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991
"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

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"This work will be the definitive Vernant textbook for students and scholars alike in the English-speaking world. . . . Froma Zeitlin is in my view America's foremost expert on the work of Vernant."--Gregory Nagy, Harvard University

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0691068313
• ISBN 13: 9780691068312
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352