Myth and society in ancient Greece
By: [by] Jean-Pierre Vernant; translated from the French by Janet Lloyd.
Series: European philosophy and the human sciences -- no. 5
Publisher: Harvester Press; Humanities Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: [Brighton, Eng.]; [Atlantic Highlands], N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Mythology, Greek.; Greece -- Social life and customs.; Greece -- Social conditions.
Work titles: Mythe et société en Grèce ancienne.
Description: 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. [Back cover].
Notes: Translation of Mythe et société en Grèce ancienne.

Includes bibliographical references.