Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece

by Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet; Translated by Janet Lloyd

• ISBN13: 9780942299199
• ISBN10: 0942299191
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-08-29
• Publisher: Zone Books

Summary

Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. Here they provide a disturbing and decidedly nonclassical reading of Greek myth and tragedy and the relationship between them. Jean-Pierre Vernant is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Study of Ancient Religions at the College de France in Paris. Pierre Vidal-Naquet is Director of Studies and Professor of Sociology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris.

Table of Contents

Preface to Volume I	7	(6)
Preface to Volume II	13	(10)
The Historical Moment of Tragedy in Greece: Some of the Social and Psychological Conditions	23	(6)
Tensions and Ambiguities in Greek Tragedy	29	(20)
Intimations of the Will in Greek Tragedy	49	(36)
Oedipus Without the Complex	85	(28)
Ambiguity and Reversal: On the Enigmatic Structure of Oedipus Rex	113	(28)
Hunting and Sacrifice in Aeschylus' Oresteia	141	(20)
Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Ephebeia	161	(20)
The God of Tragic Fiction	181	(8)
Features of the Mask in Ancient Greece	189	(18)
The Lame Tyrant: From Oedipus to Periander	207	(30)
The Tragic Subject: Historicity and Transhistoricity	237	(12)
Aeschylus, the Past and the Present	249	(24)
The Shields of the Heroes	273	(28)
Oedipus in Athens	301	(28)
Oedipus Between Two Cities: An Essay on Oedipus at Colonus	329	(32)
Oedipus in Vicenza and in Paris	361	(20)
The Masked Dionysus of Euripides' Bacchae	381	(34)
Notes	415	(92)
Subject Index	507	(16)
Index of Textual References	523