Myth and Society in Ancient Greece by Jean Pierre Vernant

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Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece that takes us far from the calm and familiar images of Polykleitos and the Parthenon, and reveals a culture of slavery, of blood sacrifice, of perpetual and ritualized warfare, of ceremonial hunting and ecstasies. In... read more

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Prometheus
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Zeus
Adonis
Oedipus
Demeter
Telemachos
Mauss
Cleisthenes
Claude Mosse
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Priam
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Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Mythology › Greek & Roman
Books › History › Europe › Greece
Books › History › Ancient › Greece
Books › Nonfiction › Philosophy

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