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Jean-Pierre Vernant is a leading French scholar of ancient Greece who attempts to elucidate Greek religions, especially mythology, through the development of a historical anthropology. In 1984 he retired from his position as professor of the comparative study of ancient religion at the College de vis mere France. Among his earlier accomplishments, Vernant received the Croix de Guerre and the Croix de la Liberation for his service in the French army in World War II; he was also made an officer in the French Legion of Honor. Vernant is a writer of essays more than of books. As anthropologist James Redfield (see Vol. 3) puts it, "His forte . . . has been the informal, slightly rambling essay. . .; he does not collect evidence in order to make a case but rather cites the material in order to illustrate his ideas."Vernant's career has been distinguished by his collaboration with other scholars, most notably with Marcel Detienne and Pierre Vidal-Naquet. His interest in applying anthropological study to ancient Greece derives from his teacher, Louis Gernet, a member of Emile Durkheim's (see Vol. 3) school of L'Annee Sociologique. Vernant also adapts ideas from structuralist anthropology, without, however, surrendering a historical perspective. He works most often on materials from Greece of the fifth century b.c. Classicists often resist Vernant's approach because it is so heavily informed by theory. Nevertheless, it provides a wonderfully rich and complex vision of the ancient world and is worth serious and prolonged consideration. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre

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The Origins of Greek Thought (1962) 292 eksemplarer
Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece (1973) 215 eksemplarer
Myth and Society in Ancient Greece (1974) 196 eksemplarer
Myth and Thought among the Greeks (1974) 174 eksemplarer
L'Homme grec (1991) — Redaktør — 111 eksemplarer
Mortals and Immortals (1991) 79 eksemplarer
The Daily Life of the Greek Gods (1979) — Redaktør — 62 eksemplarer
L'individu, la mort, l'amour (1989) 42 eksemplarer
La mort dans les yeux (1985) 42 eksemplarer
Entre mythe et politique (1996) 40 eksemplarer
Figures, idoles, masques (1990) 20 eksemplarer
La Grèce ancienne, tome 1 (1990) 15 eksemplarer
Pandora, la première femme (2006) 13 eksemplarer
Divination et rationalité (1974) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
Religions, histoires, raisons (1979) 11 eksemplarer
Dans l'œil du miroir (1997) 10 eksemplarer
Mythes grecs au figuré (1996) — Redaktør — 8 eksemplarer
Oedipe et ses mythes (1988) — Forfatter — 8 eksemplarer
Dialogo sulla storia (2014) — Forfatter — 7 eksemplarer
La mort héroïque chez les Grecs (2001) 7 eksemplarer
Travail et esclavage (1988) — Forfatter — 7 eksemplarer
ULISES / PERSEO (Spanish Edition) (2010) 4 eksemplarer
La Volonté de comprendre (1999) 3 eksemplarer
Ai confini della storia (1993) 2 eksemplarer
MITO (2021) 2 eksemplarer
La guerra nella Grecia antica (2018) 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Before Sexuality (1990) — Bidragyder — 108 eksemplarer
The Gardens of Adonis (1972) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver84 eksemplarer
Reading the Odyssey (1995) — Bidragyder — 62 eksemplarer
Antiquities: Postwar French Thought, Volume III (2001) — Bidragyder — 38 eksemplarer
Oxford Readings in Greek Religion (2000) — Bidragyder — 33 eksemplarer
Essays on Aristotle's Poetics (1992) — Bidragyder — 33 eksemplarer
Myth, Religion and Society (1982) — Bidragyder — 18 eksemplarer
A City Of Images : Iconography and Society in Ancient Greece (1984) — Forord; Forfatter, nogle udgaver12 eksemplarer

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Kanonisk navn
Vernant, Jean-Pierre
Juridisk navn
Vernant, Jean-Pierre
Fødselsdato
1914-01-04
Dødsdag
2007-01-09
Køn
male
Nationalitet
France
Land (til kort)
France
Fødested
Provins, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France
Dødssted
Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Uddannelse
Agrégation de philosophie (Rang 1, 1937)
Université de la Sorbonne (Diplôme d'études supérieures, philosophie, 1935)
Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris
Lycée Carnot, Paris
Erhverv
Professeur (Histoire ∙ Anthropologie)
Historien (Antiquité)
Helléniste
Anthropologue
Relationer
Nahimovitch, Lida (wife)
Organisationer
Collège de France (Professeur, Chaire 'Etude comparée des religions antiques', 19 75 (Professeur, Chaire 'Etude comparée des religions antiques', 19 75)
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France (Directeur d’études, 19 58 l 19 75)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Attaché de recherche , 19 48, Chargé de recherche, 19 52 l 19 57)
Lycée Jacques-Decour, Paris (Professeur, Philosophie, 19 46 l 19 48)
Lycée de Toulouse (Professeur, Philosophie, 19 40 l 19 46)
Parti communiste française (1934l1970) (vis alle 11)
Académie royale de Belgique (Membre associé)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Foreign honorary member)
British Academy (Corresponding Fellow)
Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (Honory Member)
Academia Europaea (Membre)
Priser og hædersbevisninger
Grand officier de l'ordre national du Mérite
Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur‎
Officier des Arts et des Lettres‎
Médaille d'or du CNRS (1984)
Compagnon de la Libération (1946)
Croix de guerre 1939-1945 (vis alle 16)
Université de Chicago (Docteur honoris causa)
Université de Bristol (Docteur honoris causa)
Université de Dublin (Docteur honoris causa)
Université de Naples (Docteur honoris causa)
Université d'Oxford (Docteur honoris causa)
Université Masaryk de Brno (Docteur honoris caus)
Université de Crète (Docteur honoris causa ∙ 2002)
Nouvelle Université bulgare (Docteur honoris causa ∙ 2004)
Premio di Storia (1991)
AAAS Award for Humanistic Studies (1993)
Kort biografi
Jean-Pierre Vernant was born in 1914 in Provins and is a teacher of philosophy. He was the director of studies in the college of further education from 1957 to 1975. He was also the founder (1964) and director, until 1985, of the centre for comparative research into ancient societies. He is considered one of the foremost specialists of ancient Greek history. Since 1984 he has been an honorary professor of the Collège de France where he was awarded the chair of comparative ancient religions from 1975 to 1984. He has been awarded the Médaille d’Or by the CNRS, is Commander of the Legion of Honour, Grand Officier in l’Ordre du Mérite and has received le Croix de Guerre for his active role in the French Resistance under the pseudonyme of Colonel Berthier.

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Per un ex liceale, è bello, utile (e doveroso) rinfrescarsi la memoria con la mitologia greca incontrata al classico. Per chiunque altro, immagino sia un testo ottimo come introduzione per avventurarsi nelle letture dei classici originali. Una sola nota: lo stile è cronachistico, alla lunga un po' piatto. L'autore concentra il poche pagine una grande quantità di informazioni e se l'opera gli riesce particolarmente bene nella prima parte del libro (l'universo e gli dei, diciamo fino alla guerra di Troia), nella seconda va forse un po' troppo veloce risultando poco scorrevole e troppo fitto di contenuti. A ogni modo, piacevolissimo.… (mere)
 
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This book has interesting information but is oddly organized. The first part tells of how the poets saw the gods: as having daily lives of feasting, traveling, interacting with mortals, discussing with one another. The philosophers disagreed, seeing any action as incompatible with the bliss that definitional for their concept of divinity. We also contrast the relatively stable personalities and attributes of the Olympians in mythology with the fragmented identities in which Aphrodite can be worshipped in one place as a goddess of sex and in another as a war goddess. Book also describes Greek ideas of citizenship, founding of cities (with the establishment of altars and patron gods an important part), and the festivals of Dionysus.… (mere)
 
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MITO Y TRAGEDIA EN LA GRECIA ANTIGUA

Los estudios reunidos en este volumen derivan del encuentro único y peculiarísimo de dos disciplinas: el análisis estructural y el estudio de la tragedia griega en toda su individualidad. El resultado, lejos de ser paradójico, abre perspectivas nuevas y enriquecedoras.

Estas investigaciones suponen una constante confrontación entre nuestros conceptos modernos y las categorías establecidas en las tragedias antiguas. ¿Puede el Edipo rey ser estudiado por el psicoanálisis? ¿Cómo se elaboran en la tragedia el sentido de la responsabilidad, el compromiso con los propios actos o lo que hoy llamamos la función psicológica de la voluntad? Plantear estos problemas es pedir que se entable un diálogo lúcido y verdaderamente histórico entre la intención de aquellos mitos y los hábitos mentales del hombre moderno.

En 1972, Jean-Pierre Vernant y Pierre Vidal Naquet publicaron en Francia este primer volumen de Mito y trogedia en la Grecia antiguo, una recopilación de siete estudios que intentaba someter determinados textos antiguos tesis estructural, a la investigación literaria y a la indagación sociológica. Este triple enfoque no se aplica sólo al mito, sino también a la singularidad de cada tragedia considerada como "fenómeno indisolublemente social, estético y psicológico"

Catorce años más tarde, aparecía la segunda parte de la obra -también publicada por Paidós que ampliaba la perspectiva escogida y centraba el análisis en los dioses de la tragedia del siglo V, en particular el dios del teatro y de la máscara: Dionisos. Más allá del teatro clásico, los autores se preguntaban en ella por qué ese clasicismo se ha convertido en nuestro clasicismo.

Los dos tomos se han convertido hoy en día en referencias indiscutibles para todos los estudiantes e investigadores de la historia antigua y además, para quienes se interesan por los roles y las estructuras de los mitos.
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