by Jean-Pierre Vernant · Editorial Ariel · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434410961
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«Mito y religión en la Grecia antigua» is the historical essay by Jean-Pierre Vernant on Greek religion, published by Editorial Ariel in paperback.
Vernant analyzes Greek religion as a civic practice, without church or clergy, oriented towards life in the polis. The essay covers the interpretation of myth, gods and heroes, sacrifices, the Eleusinian Mysteries and Orphism, and notes how philosophy inherited the questions about the soul and the divine.
This work is part of the Ariel Filosofía collection, where it is volume 1. The original French title is «Mythe et religion en Grèce ancienne».
For those interested in classical Greece, the history of religions and philosophical thought.
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.
