Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece

Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. In this work, the authors present a disturbing and decidedly nonclassical 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 I as well as the first English translation of Volume II.Author: Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-NaquetPublisher: Zone BooksPublished: 10/17/1990Pages: 528Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.50dISBN: 9780942299199About the AuthorVernant, Jean-Pierre: - The late Jean-Pierre Vernant was Professor of Comparative Study of Religions at the Collège de France in Paris.