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
- Origins of Greek Thought, 1982 (in English)
- 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
- Mythe et religion en Grèce ancienne, Paris: Seuil, 1990