The Origins of Greek Thought

by Jean-Pierre Vernant

Book Overview

Jean-Pierre Vernant's concise, brilliant essay on the origins of Greek thought relates the cultural achievement of the ancient Greeks to their physical and social environment and shows that what they believed in was inseparable from the way they lived. The emergence of rational thought, Vernant claims, is closely linked to the advent of the open-air politics that characterized life in the Greek polis. Vernant points out that when the focus of Mycenaean...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801492939
• ISBN13: 9780801492938
• Release Date: September 1984
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher