Jean-Pierre Vernant

Jean-Pierre Vernant (January 4, 1914 – January 9, 2007) was a French 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.

Works

(in French unless noted)

• Les origines de la pensée grecque, Paris: PUF, 1962; 10th edition, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2007. [1]
  • Origins of Greek Thought, 1982. (in English)
  • Los orígenes del pensamiento griego, trans. Marino Ayerra, Bracelona: Ediciones Paidós Ibérica, 1992. (in Spanish)
  • As origens do pensamento grego, trans. Ísis Borges B. da Fonseca, Rio de Janeiro: Difel, 1992. (in Portuguese)
• Mythe et pensée chez les Grecs: Etudes de psychologie historique, Paris: Maspero, 1965; Paris: Editions La Decouverte, 1996 Rewiew.
  • Myth and Thought among the Greeks, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983; New York: Zone Books, 2006. (in English)
• with Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Mythe et tragédie en Grèce ancienne, 2 vols., Paris, 1972, 1986.
  • Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece, 1988.
• with Marcel Detienne, Les ruses de l'intelligence. La metis des grecs, Paris: Flammarion, 1974.
  • Vicleşugurile inteligenţei. Metis la greci, trans. Margareta Sfirschi, Editura Symposion, 1999. (in Romanian)
• Mythe et société en Grèce ancienne, Paris: Éditions Maspero, 1974; Editions la Decouverte, 1988.
  • Myth and society in Ancient Greece, trans. Janet Lloyd, New York: Zone Book, 1990, 1996. (in English)
• Mythe et religion en Grèce ancienne, Paris: Seuil, 1990.
• L'Univers, les Dieux, les Hommes. Récits grecs des origines, Paris: Seuil, 1999.
  • El universo; los dioses; los hombres. El relato de los mitos griegos, trans. Joaquín Tordá, Barcelona: Anagrama, 2000.(in Spanish)

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Vernant
• http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/dossiers/2007/vernant/liens.php