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 ed., Paris: PUF, 2007. [1]
  • Origins of Greek Thought, 1982. (English)
  • Los orígenes del pensamiento griego, trans. Marino Ayerra, Bracelona: Ediciones Paidós Ibérica, 1992. (Spanish)
  • As origens do pensamento grego, trans. Ísis Borges B. da Fonseca, Rio de Janeiro: Difel, 1992. (Portuguese)

• Mythe et pensée chez les Grecs: Etudes de psychologie historique, Paris: Maspero, 1965; Paris: La Decouverte, 1996 Review.
  • Myth and Thought Among the Greeks, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983; New York: Zone Books, 2006. (English)
  • Mito e pensamento entre os gregos, Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 1990, PDF. (Brazilian Portuguese)

• with Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Mythe et tragédie en Grèce ancienne, 2 vols., Paris, 1972, 1986.
  • Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece, trans. Janet L1oyd, New York: Zone Books, 1988, 1990, 1996. (English)
  • Mito e Tragédia na Grécia Antiga, 2 vols., trans. AA. VV., Sao Paulo: Perspectiva, 1999. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Mito y Tragedia en la Grecia Antigua, 2 vols., Paidós Ibérica, 2002. (Spanish)
• 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. (Romanian)

• Mythe et société en Grèce ancienne, Paris: Maspero, 1974; Paris: La Decouverte, 1988.
  • Myth and society in Ancient Greece, trans. Janet Lloyd, New York: Zone Books, 1990; 1996. (English)

• Mythe et religion en Grèce ancienne, Paris: Seuil, 1990, ARG/Epub.
  • Mit şi religie în Grecia Antică, trans. Mihai Gramatopol, Bucharest: Meridiane, 1995. (Romanian)
  • Mito e religião na Grécia Antiga, trans. Joana Angélica D'Ávila Melo, Sao Paulo: WMF Martins Fontes, 2006; 2nd edition, 2009. (Portuguese)

• with Jean Bottéro and Clarisse Herrenschmidt L'Orient ancien et nous. L'écriture, la raison, les dieux, Paris: Albin Michel, 1996. Review
  • Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece, trans. Francois Zabbal and Teresa Lavender Fagan, Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2000, PDF. (English)

• 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. (Spanish)

Colected works

• Œuvres, vol. 1, Paris: Seuil, 2007, ARG. Includes Religions, rationalités, politique contient, L'Univers, les Dieux, les Hommes; Les Origines de la pensée grecque; Mythe et pensée chez les Grecs etc.

Bibliography

• in French

Literature

• Richard Neer, "Jean-Pierre Vernant and the History of the Image", Arethusa 43, no. 2 (2010), pp 181–95, ARG

Links

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