Antiquities (Postwar French Thought)

Nagy, Gregory

ISBN 10: 1565843762 / ISBN 13: 9781565843769

Published by The New Press, 2001

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Synopsis:

Since 1945, the innovative approaches of a group of French scholars have profoundly altered the study of classical antiquity. Drawing on work in anthropology, religion, psychology, philology, and the new history, Antiquities offers major critical texts that have transformed the field of classics in the last half century.

With seminal essays by Louis Gernet, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Nicole Loraux, Marcel Detienne, and their colleagues (many newly translated for this volume), Antiquities provides a rich perspective on society, politics, myth, gender, literary genre, and everyday life in the ancient world. An introduction and extensive notes explore the impact of a range of disciplines on these influential classicists' thinking.

About the Author:

Nicole Loraux (1943–2003) was the chair of the Department of History and Anthropology of the Greek Polis at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She was the author of The Divided City, The Children of Athena, The Experiences of Tiresia, Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman, and Mothers in Mourning, among other titles.

Gregory Nagy is the Frances Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and a professor of comparative literature at Harvard University, where he is also the director of the Center for Hellenic Studies.

Laura Slatkin is a professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU and a visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The Power of Thetis.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Antiquities (Postwar French Thought)
Publisher: The New Press
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good