Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece

By Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942299183
• ISBN13: 9780942299182
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher