Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780942299199)

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.

Author: Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet
ISBN-10: 0942299191
ISBN-13: 9780942299199
Publisher: Zone Books
Language: English
Published: 10/17/1990
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.50d