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ISBN: 9780942299199
Published: October 17, 1990
Publisher: Zone Books
Trim: 0.00 x 0.00 Inches
Pages: 528
Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece
Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Janet Lloyd
By Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet
Translated by Janet Lloyd
About the Book
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.