Tragedy and Myth in Ancient Greece (European philosophy and the human sciences) - Hardcover

VERNANT Jean Pierre And VIDAL NAQUET Pierre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0855279168 ISBN 13: 9780855279165

Publisher: Harvester Press, 1981

Synopsis

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 College de France. Janet Lloyd is a translator and writer living in England. Distributed for Zone Books.

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Review:

" What is Dionysiac about Greek tragedy, Vernant suggests, and specific to the genre, is the 'otherness' of the hero, his belonging to an absent world that no longer exists, and the blurring and shifting of the boundaries between illusion and reality that result for the audience.... "Myth and Tragedy" is a book to be unreservedly welcome for its progressive unfolding of ideas which have proved consistently fertile in new perceptions." -- "Times Literary Supplement"

& quot; What is Dionysiac about Greek tragedy, Vernant suggests, and specific to the genre, is the 'otherness' of the hero, his belonging to an absent world that no longer exists, and the blurring and shifting of the boundaries between illusion and reality that result for the audience.... Myth and Tragedy is a book to be unreservedly welcome for its progressive unfolding of ideas which have proved consistently fertile in new perceptions.& quot; -- Times Literary Supplement

"What is Dionysiac about Greek tragedy, Vernant suggests, and specific to the genre, is the 'otherness' of the hero, his belonging to an absent world that no longer exists, and the blurring and shifting of the boundaries between illusion and reality that result for the audience.... "Myth and Tragedy" is a book to be unreservedly welcome for its progressive unfolding of ideas which have proved consistently fertile in new perceptions."--"Times Literary Supplement"

About the Author:

The late Jean-Pierre Vernant was Professor of Comparative Study of Religions at the College de France in Paris. Janet Lloyd is a translator and writer living in England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvester Press
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0855279168
• ISBN 13: 9780855279165
• Binding: Hardcover