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, 1962; 10th edition, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2007. [1]
- Origins of Greek Thought, 1982. (in English)
- Los orígenes del pensamiento griego, trans. Ediciones Paidos Iberica, 1992 .(in Spanish)
- Mythe et pensée chez les Grecs: Etudes de psychologie historique, Paris, 1965.
- Myth and Thought among the Greeks, 1983. (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
