Mortals and Immortals: Collected Essays

by Jean-Pierre Vernant, Froma I. Zeitlin (Editor)

Overview

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691019314
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	01/21/1991
Series:	Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology Series
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	314
Sales rank:	1,076,587
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

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Gregory Nagy

This work will be the definitive Vernant textbook for students and scholars alike in the English-speaking world. . . . Froma Zeitlin is in my view America's foremost expert on the work of Vernant. . . .
— Gregory Nagy, Harvard University

Editorial Reviews

"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."

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One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991

"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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