Jean-Pierre Vernant has profoundly transformed our perceptions of ancient Greece. Published in 1991, this collection of nineteen essays probes deeply into themes of enduring interest--death, the body, the soul, the individual, and relations between mortals and immortals; the mask, the mirror, the image, and the imagination; the self and the other, and, more broadly, the concept of otherness itself, or "alterity."
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Vernant's work ranges across the entire field of ancient Greek religion, philosophy, and literature and joins exacting philological scholarship to exciting and innovative theoretical paradigms. Not since Jane Harrison and Gilbert Murray has a classicist commanded the attention of non-classicists in the way Vernant has over the last twenty-five years. -- Choice
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- The Cuisine of Sacrifice among the Greeks by Marcel Detienne in Front Matter, page 35, and page 290
- Greek Religion: Belief and Experience by Thomas Harrison in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Making of Late Antiquity (Jackson Lectures) by Peter Brown on page 332, and page 333
- Late Antiquity by Peter Brown on page 332, and page 333
- Myth and Society in Ancient Greece by Jean-Pierre Vernant in Front Matter, and page 34
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- Republics Ancient & Modern, Vol. 1: The Ancien Régime in Classical Greece by Paul A. Rahe on 5 pages
- Polytheism and Society at Athens by Robert Parker on 5 pages
- Virginia Woolf Icon (Women in Culture and Society) by Brenda R. Silver in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Speaking with the Dead: Explorations in Literature and History by Jürgen Pieters on page 83, and Back Matter
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