num_pages: 527
description: 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.
language: English
title: Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece
titlecomplete: Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece
genres: Classics, History, School, Philosophy, Classical Studies, Tragedy, Criticism, Nonfiction, Mythology, Greece
ratings_count: 155
publisher: Zone Books