by Jean-Pierre Vernant · Einaudi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806219697
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«L'universo, gli dèi, gli uomini. Il racconto del mito» is the mythology essay by Jean-Pierre Vernant, published by Einaudi in paperback (212 pages).
Vernant brings together the Greek myths in a continuous narrative: from the origin of the world with Gaia and Uranus to the adventures of Ulysses, passing through Prometheus, Pandora, Oedipus and Perseus. The author connects the surviving fragments of tradition to offer an accessible narration, designed to be listened to like a tale.
Text in Italian. Translation by Irene Babboni. The edition belongs to the Super ET collection; the work was originally published in 1999 as L'Univers, les Dieux, les Hommes.
For readers of classical mythology, including those approaching Greek stories for the first time.
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.
