Myth and Society in Ancient Greece
By: Vernant, Jean Pierre [Author].
Contributor(s): Lloyd, Janet [Translator].
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BookPublisher: New York MIT press 1990Description: 279 p. : 23 cm.ISBN: 9780942299175.Subject(s): Manners and customs | Social conditions | Mythe | Greece | Mythology | Social life and customsDDC classification: 938 Summary: This book is a stimulating and largely persuasive collection of essays on the interrelations between social institutions and mythical thinking in ancient Greek society. What is fundamental to the author's approach is a determination to see the meaning of Greek myth and of Greek social institutions in patterns of association and opposition, in the articulations of a system of ideas. It is in this sense that the term "structuralist" is accurately used of him, not in the sense of one who mechanically applies Lévi-Straussian procedures and categories to the Greek evidence.
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Translation of: Mythe et société en Grèce ancienne. Bibliography: p. 261-279.
This book is a stimulating and largely persuasive collection of essays on the interrelations between social institutions and mythical thinking in ancient Greek society. What is fundamental to the author's approach is a determination to see the meaning of Greek myth and of Greek social institutions in patterns of association and opposition, in the articulations of a system of ideas. It is in this sense that the term "structuralist" is accurately used of him, not in the sense of one who mechanically applies Lévi-Straussian procedures and categories to the Greek evidence.
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