Myth And Thought Among The Greeks
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Myth And Thought Among The Greeks
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Author : Jean-Pierre Vernant
language : en
Publisher: Mit Press
Release Date : 2006
Myth And Thought Among The Greeks written by Jean-Pierre Vernant and has been published by Mit Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
When Jean-Pierre Vernant first published Myth and Thought among the Greeks in 1965,it transformed the field of ancient Greek scholarship, calling forth a new way to think about Greekmyth and thought. In eighteen essays--three of which, along with a new preface, are translated intoEnglish for the first time--Vernant freed the subject of ancient Greece from its philological chainsand reread the questions of "muthos" and "logos" within multifaced and transdisciplinarycontexts--of religion, ritual, and art, philosophy, science, social and economic institutions, andhistorical psychology. A major contribution to both the humanities and the social sciences, Myth andThought among the Greeks aims to come to terms with a single, essential question: How wereindividual persons in ancient Greece inseparable from a social and cultural environment of whichthey were simultaneously the creators and products? Seven themes organize this stellar work--from"Myth Structures" and "Mythic Aspects of Memory and Time" to "The Organization of Space," "Work andTechnological Thought," and "Personal Identity and Religion." A master storyteller, an innovative,precise, and original thinker, Vernant continues to change the narratives we tell about thehistories of civilizations and the histories of human beings in their individual and collectiveidentities.
Myth And Thought Among The Greeks Routledge Revivals
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Author : Jean-Pierre Vernant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-03-15
Myth And Thought Among The Greeks Routledge Revivals written by Jean-Pierre Vernant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-15 with categories.
Myth and Thought among the Greeks, first published in 1965, presents a collection of early essays by the distinguished French anthropologist Jean-Pierre Vernant. Focussing on Hellenism from the perspective of historical psychology, he applies structuralist ideas to Greek culture and myth with the purpose of discerning the contours of the ancient Greek personality. Vernant develops a structuralist analysis of Hesiod's myth of the races, then goes on to examine aspects of memory and time. He investigates in detail the organisation of space and the development of the conception of space. Work and technological thought are discussed in an important section, which also covers the psychological category of the double, personal identity and religion, and the movement from 'mythical' to 'rational' thought. These essays represent a pioneering approach to the study of Greek myth, illuminating the obscure turning point which the psychology of Hellenism marks in the history of Western culture.
The Origins Of Greek Thought
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Author : Jean-Pierre Vernant
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1984
The Origins Of Greek Thought written by Jean-Pierre Vernant and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
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 society gave way to the agora, the change had profound social and cultural implications. "Social experience could become the object of pragmatic thought for the Greeks," he writes, "because in the city-state it lent itself to public debate. The decline of myth dates from the day the first sages brought human order under discussion and sought to define it.... Thus evolved a strictly political thought, separate from religion, with its own vocabulary, concepts, principles, and theoretical aims."
Myth And Society In Ancient Greece
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Author : Jean-Pierre Vernant
language : en
Publisher: Brighton, Sussex : Harvester
Release Date : 1980
Myth And Society In Ancient Greece written by Jean-Pierre Vernant and has been published by Brighton, Sussex : Harvester this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Greece categories.
Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece that takes us far from the calm and familiar images of Polykleitos and the Parthenon, and reveals a culture of slavery, of blood sacrifice, of perpetual and ritualized warfare, of ceremonial hunting and ecstasies.In his provocative discussions of various institutions and practices including war, marriage, and the city state, Vernant unveils a complex and previously unexplored intersection of the religious, social, and political structures of ancient Greece. He concludes with a genealogy of the study of myth from antiquity to the present, and offers a critique of structuralism.Jean-Pierre Vernant is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Study of Ancient Religions at the College de France in Paris.
Myth And Thought Among The Greeks Translation Of Mythe Et Pensee Chez Les Grecs
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Author : Jean Pierre Vernant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Myth And Thought Among The Greeks Translation Of Mythe Et Pensee Chez Les Grecs written by Jean Pierre Vernant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with categories.
Myth As Source Of Knowledge In Early Western Thought
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Author : Harald Haarmann
language : en
Publisher: Harrassowitz
Release Date : 2015
Myth As Source Of Knowledge In Early Western Thought written by Harald Haarmann and has been published by Harrassowitz this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Greece categories.
The perception of intellectual life in Greek antiquity by the representatives of the European Enlightenment of the 18th century favoured the establishment of the cult of reason. Myth as a potential source of knowledge was disregarded: instead, the monopoly of truth-finding through pure rationalisation was asserted. This tendency, positing, as it did, reason in opposition to myth, did a signal disservice to the realities of intellectual life among the ancient Greeks. Nevertheless, these distortions of the Enlightenment have conditioned our approach to education and have led to our privileging of reason as a mode of enquiry right up to the present day. The ancient Greek intellectuals (i.e. the pre-Socratic philosophers, the early historiographers, philosophers of the classical age) did not set myth (mythos) and reason (logos) in opposition to each other. In fact, they benefited from both as differing modes of enquiry, each in its own right and possessing its own value. Plato, in his reasoning, was much concerned with the proper use of mythical narrative. In one of his dialogues, he even coined a new term for explaining how mythical topics and motifs should be exploited as a source of knowledge. This term is mythologia, and it first occurs in Plato's Republic (394b). The present study aims to offer a corrective to traditional cliches and received wisdom about intellectual life in ancient Greece. The work proposes, and aims to reconstruct, a mental landscape in which myth and reason connect and vividly interact, and in which the concepts of mythos and logos are intertwined in the terminological network of the ancient Greek language.
Did The Greeks Believe In Their Myths
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Author : Paul Veyne
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1988-06-15
Did The Greeks Believe In Their Myths written by Paul Veyne and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-06-15 with History categories.
An examination of Greek mythology and a discussion about how religion and truth have evolved throughout time.
The Universe The Gods And Men
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Author : Jean-Pierre Vernant
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2002-09-17
The Universe The Gods And Men written by Jean-Pierre Vernant and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-17 with Fiction categories.
In this enchanting retelling of Greek myth, Jean-Pierre Vernant combines his deep knowledge of the subject with an original storytelling style. Beginning with the creation of Earth out of Chaos, Vernant continues with the castration of Uranus, the war between the Titans and the Olympian gods, the wily ruses of Prometheus and Zeus, and the creation of Pandora, the first woman. His narrative takes readers from the Trojan War to the voyage of Odysseus, from the story of Dionysus to the terrible destiny of Oedipus, to Perseus's confrontation with the Gorgons. Jean-Pierre Vernant has devoted himself to the study of Greek mythology. In recounting these tales, he unravels for us their multiple meanings and brings to life the beloved figures of legend whose narratives lie at the origin of our civilization.
Myth And Tragedy In Ancient Greece
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Author : Jean Pierre Vernant
language : en
Publisher: Zone Books (NY)
Release Date : 1988
Myth And Tragedy In Ancient Greece written by Jean Pierre Vernant and has been published by Zone Books (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Drama categories.
Jean Pierre-Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. In this work, published here as a single volume, the authors present a disturbing and decidedly non-classical 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 one and is the first English translation of both volumes.Pierre Vidal-Naquet is Director of Studies and Professor of Sociology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. Jean Pierre-Vernant is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Study of Ancient Religions at the Coll?ge de France. Janet Lloyd is a translator and writer living in England. Distributed for Zone Books.
Cosmos Of The Ancients
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Author : Stefan Stenudd
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-09-09
Cosmos Of The Ancients written by Stefan Stenudd and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-09 with categories.
The philosophers of Ancient Greece lived in a time when the gods were worshipped and the myths about them very much alive. They were generally regarded as accurate and there was no scientific evidence at hand to dismiss them. So, were they believed? This book explores to what extent the Greeks were able to question their own mythology. This is done by examining the cosmology of their philosophers and what roles they allowed therein for the gods - as much as possible according to their own words. To the philosophers, the quest to understand the world was neither made redundant by the mythology nor completely independent of it. If they were able to express doubts regarding the gods as well as the myths about them, and many of them certainly were, then their contemporaries must have been able to grasp the same. The Greeks were devoted to their mythology, but not all of them blindly so. Stefan Stenudd is a Swedish author and historian of ideas, who specializes on studies of the patterns of thought in creation myths.
