by Jean-Pierre Vernant · Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475097435
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This book by Jean-Pierre Vernant explores the transformations that marked the social life and spiritual universe of the Greek man, analyzing how Greek reason detached itself from religious mentality and overcame myth. The work examines the shift from the 8th to the 7th century BC, where Greece took a new direction, laying the foundations for the regime of the polis and philosophy. This edition offers an introductory text by the author that contextualizes his reasoning and updates the topic.
Jean-Pierre Vernant was a French resistant, historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, tragedy, and society which would itself be influential among classical scholars. He was an honorary professor at the Collège de France.
