Antiquities

by Loraux, Nicole

• ISBN13: 9781565843769
• ISBN10: 1565843762
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

The third volume in the "timely and ambitious" (Boston Book Review) New Press Postwar French Thought Series. Since 1945, the innovative approaches of a group of French scholars have profoundly altered the study of classical antiquity. Drawing on work in anthropology, religion, psychology, philology, and the new history, Antiquities offers major critical texts that have transformed the field of classics in the last half century. With seminal essays by Louis Gernet, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Nicole Loraux, Marcel Detienne, and their colleagues (many newly translated for this volume), Antiquities provides a rich perspective on society, politics, myth, gender, literary genre, and everyday life in the ancient world. An introduction and extensive notes explore the impact of a range of disciplines on these influential classicists' thinking.

Table of Contents

Series Preface	vi
Acknowledgments	vii
Permissions	viii
Introduction	1	(18)
Nicole Loraux
Gregory Nagy
Laura Slatkin
PART I CONVERGENCES OF APPROACH
``The Spiritual Universe of the Polis'' (1962)	19	(12)
Jean-Pierre Vernant
``Reflections on Philological Practice'' (1977)	31	(10)
Jean Bollack
``The Origins of Greek Philosophy'' (1945)	41	(7)
Louis Gernet
``Cleisthenes the Athenian'' (1964)	48	(6)
Pierre Leveque
Pierre Vidal-Naquet
``Greek Civil War and the Anthropological Representation of the World Turned Upside-down'' (1995)	54	(17)
Nicole Loraux
``Epilogue: Once Again, the Woman, the Virgin, Female Athenians'' (1981)	71	(12)
Nicole Loraux
``The Black Hunter Revisited'' (1986)	83	(17)
Pierre Vidal-Naquet
``Political Symbolism: The Public Hearth'' (1951)	100	(12)
Louis Gernet
``Hestia-Hermes: The Religious Expression of Space and Movement in Ancient Greece'' (1963)	112	(22)
Jean-Pierre Vernant
``Voyage in Greek Amazonia'' (1979)	134	(9)
Jeannie Carlier
``Frontiers and Otherness'' (1980)	143	(15)
Francois Hartog
``The `I' of the Inquirer: The Function of Critical Discourse'' (1987)	158	(6)
Catherine Darbo-Peschanski
``Living Statues'' (1975)	164	(12)
Francoise Frontisi-Ducroux
``The Spicy Side of Structuralism'' (1978)	176	(7)
Geoffrey Kirk
``Afterword: Revisiting the Gardens of Adonis'' (1994)	183	(12)
Marcel Detienne
``Social Diversity of Beliefs and Mental Balkanization'' (1983)	195	(10)
Paul Veyne
``Return to the Mouth of Truth'' (1996)	205	(20)
Marcel Detienne
PART II CONVERGENCES OF SUBJECT
``Damos in Mycenaean Society'' (1965)	225	(15)
Michel Lejeune
``Inscriptions from Lesbos'' (1960)	240	(9)
Louis Robert
``Eulaios: History and Onomastics'' (1962)	249	(8)
Louis Robert
``What Tiresias Saw'' (1982)	257	(19)
Nicole Loraux
``The Erotic Images of War'' (1984)	276	(7)
Helene Monsacre
``Misshapen Priapus'' (1986)	283	(9)
Maurice Olender
``The Venter: Maternal Body, Paternal Right'' (1987)	292	(10)
Yan Thomas
``Structure and Communication'' (1976)	302	(12)
Claude Nicolet
``The History of the Text of Pindar'' (1952)	314	(10)
Jean Irigoin
``Dionysus'' (1953)	324	(10)
Louis Gernet
``The Masked Dionysus of Euripides' Bacchae'' (1986)	334	(12)
Jean-Pierre Vernant
``The Twelve Gods of the Greeks: Variations on a Theme'' (1995)	346	(9)
Stella Georgoudi
``Heroes and Gods'' (1984)	355	(4)
Claude Mosse
``Against the Rules: A Performative Sacrifice'' (1978)	359	(3)
Laurence Kahn
``A Theology of the Sign in Greece: The Homeric Hymn to Hermes (I), Commentary on Lines 1-181'' (1995)	362	(13)
Claudine Leduc
``The Mirror and the Loop'' (1983)	375	(9)
Francoise Letoublon
``Remarks on Aeschylus's Homer'' (1995)	384	(11)
Pierre Judet de La Combe
``Rewriting Homer: Remarks on the Narrative of the Chariot Race of Sophocles' Electra'' (2000)	395	(14)
Philippe Rousseau
PART III DIVERGENCES OF APPROACH OR SUBJECT
``Milman Parry and Antoine Meillet'' (1997)	409	(13)
Charles de Lamberterie
``The Medical Tradition of the Indo-Europeans'' (1945)	422	(6)
Emile Benveniste
``The Work of Emile Benveniste: A Linguistic Analysis of Indo-European Institutions'' (1971)	428	(11)
Charles Malamoud
``Social Symbolism in Greco-Italic Cults'' (1945)	439	(9)
Emile Benveniste
``Thought Takes Form'' (1993)	448	(16)
Patrice Loraux
``Khora'' (1987)	464	(4)
Jacques Derrida
Bibliography and Abbreviations	468