Jean-Pierre Vernant

Mehmet Emin Özcan

evren, tanrılar, insanlar

Torunuma Yunan mitleri

récits grecs des origines

L'univers, les dieux, les hommes

In this enchanting retelling of Greek myth, Jean-Pierre Vernant combines his deep knowledge of the subject with an original storytelling style. Beginning with the creation of Earth out of Chaos, Vernant continues with the castration of Uranus, the war between the Titans and the Olympian gods, the wily ruses of Prometheus and Zeus, and the creation of Pandora, the first woman. His narrative takes readers from the Trojan War to the voyage of Odysseus, from the story of Dionysus to the terrible destiny of Oedipus to Perseus's confrontation with the Gorgons. Jean-Pierre Vernant has devoted himself to the study of Greek mythology. In recounting these tales, he unravels for us their multiple meanings and brings to life the beloved figures of legend whose narratives lie at the origin of our civilization. With remarkable psychological acuity, Vernant presents a picture of the world as the Greeks understood it. The relationship between the human and the divine -- realms that have always been intimately connected -- and their place within a world of potent natural forces are evoked effortlessly in a narrative that retains the magical quality of myth and reads with the compelling momentum of a good novel.

Ancient Greek Myths Told by Jean-Pierre Vernant

The Universe, the Gods, and Men

In this engrossing retelling of Greek myth, Jean-Pierre Vernant combines his profound knowledge of the subject with brilliant and original story-telling. Beginning with the creation of Earth out of Chaos, Vernant continues with the castration of Uranus, the war between the Titans and the gods of Olympus, the wily ruses of Prometheus and Zeus, and the creation of Pandora, the first woman. His narrative takes us from the Trojan War to the voyage of Odysseus, from the story of Dionysus to the terrible destiny of Oedipus and to Perseus's confrontation with the Gorgons. Jean-Pierre Vernant has devoted himself to the study of Greek mythology. In recounting these tales, he unravels for us their multiple meanings and brings to life cherished figures of legend whose stories lie at the origin of our civilization.

Ancient Greek Myths

The Universe, the Gods, and Mortals

أصول الفكر اليوناني

L'universo, gli dèi, gli uomini. Il racconto del mito

What do we mean when we speak of ancient Greeks? A person from the Archaic period? The war hero celebrated by Homer? Or the fourth century "political animal" described by Aristotle? In this book, leading scholars show what it meant to be Greek during the classical period of Greek civilization. The Greeks offers the most complete portraits available of typical Greek personages from Athens to Sparta, Arcadia, Thessaly and Epirus to the city-states of Asia Minor, to the colonies of the Black Sea, southern Italy, and Sicily. Looking at the citizen, the religious believer, the soldier, the servant, the peasant, and others, they show what—in the Greek relationships with the divine, with nature, with others, and with the self—made him "different" in his ways of acting, thinking, and feeling. The contributors to this volume are Jean-Pierre Vernant, Claude Mosse, Yvon Garlan, Giuseppe Cambiano, Luciano Canfora, James Redfield, Charles Segal, Oswyn Murray, Mario Vegetti, and Philippe Borgeaud.

The Greeks

Počátky řeckého myšlení

Jean-Pierre Vernant's concise, brilliant essay on the origins of Greek thought relates the cultural achievement of the ancient Greeks to their physical and social environment and shows that what they believed in was inseparable from the way they lived. The emergence of rational thought, Vernant claims, is closely linked to the advent of the open-air politics that characterized life in the Greek polis. Vernant points out that when the focus of Mycenaean society gave way to the agora, the change had profound social and cultural implications. "Social experience could become the object of pragmatic thought for the Greeks," he writes, "because in the city-state it lent itself to public debate. The decline of myth dates from the day the first sages brought human order under discussion and sought to define it.... Thus evolved a strictly political thought, separate from religion, with its own vocabulary, concepts, principles, and theoretical aims."

The Origins of Greek Thought

Myth and Thought among the Greeks, first published in 1965, presents a collection of early essays by the distinguished French anthropologist Jean-Pierre Vernant. Focussing on Hellenism from the perspective of historical psychology, he applies structuralist ideas to Greek culture and myth with the purpose of discerning the contours of the ancient Greek personality. Vernant develops a structuralist analysis of Hesiod's myth of the races, then goes on to examine aspects of memory and time. He investigates in detail the organisation of space and the development of the conception of space. Work and technological thought are discussed in an important section, which also covers the psychological category of the double, personal identity and religion, and the movement from 'mythical' to 'rational' thought. These essays represent a pioneering approach to the study of Greek myth, illuminating the obscure turning point which the psychology of Hellenism marks in the history of Western culture.

Myth and Thought Among the Greeks (Routledge Revivals)

François Hartog

Antoine Spire

Michel Field

Les émissions de télévision où sont nés les textes que nous publions aujourd'hui ont été produites entre 1989 et 1990. En les revoyant, nous avons constaté que les propos n'avaient pas vieilli. Chacun des intellectuels de renom invité par Antoine Spire au cours de ces Grands Entretiens est grave ou espiègle, lucide ou jubilatoire, complexe ou lumineux, mais il ne se départit jamais de sa passion et de sa détermination : comprendre et faire comprendre.

Recueil de textes de J.P. Vernant, professeur honoraire au Collège de France, spécialiste des mythes grecs. Ils témoignent de sa réflexion sur les mythes et la politique, son expérience de résistant pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et son impact sur sa façon d'aborder l'histoire, la notion de héros, la méthode historique, etc.

Entre mythe et politique: La traversée des frontières

Pierre Vidal-Naquet

Tragedy and Myth in Ancient Greece

In this groundbreaking study, Jean Pierre-Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece. Myth and Society in Ancient Greece takes us far from the calm and familiar images of Polykleitos and the Parthenon to reveal a fundamentally other culture: one of slavery, of masks and death, of scapegoats, of ritual hunting and ecstasies.Vernant's provocative discussion of various institutions and practices including war, marriage, and sacrifice details the complex intersection of the religious, social, and political structures of ancient Greece. The book concludes with Vernant's authoritative genealogy of the study of myth from antiquity to structuralism and beyond.

Myth and Society in Ancient Greece

Centre de recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes (France)

Poikilia

Jean Bottéro

Clarisse Herrenschmidt

Le mythe des deux origines ultimes de l'Occident, la Bible et la Grèce, a été définitivement ébranlé par l'assyriologie. L'enquête que mènent dans ce livre, Jean Bottéro (EPHE), grand spécialiste de la Mésopotamie, Clarisse Herrenschmidt (CNRS) dont les travaux portent sur l'histoire de l'écriture, et Jean-Pierre Vernant (Collège de France), historien de la Grèce ancienne, fait apparaître les multiples courants issus des civilisations du Tigre et de l'Euphrate. De Sumer et d'Akkad vient l'écriture qui donne naissance à la raison déductive, ouvre de nouveaux horizons économiques et rend possible une religion universelle. Elamites, Achéménides, Juifs et Grecs tissent des liens inédits entre l'ici-bas et le monde invisible à travers l'alphabet et le langage. Les Grecs, inspirés en partie par Babylone, inventent l'univers du politique et de la religion civique. Ainsi, les cultures araméenne, juive, persane et grecque n'ont cessé de se croiser au fil des siècles jusques et y compris en Islam. De ces nombreux échanges et rencontres se dégage un héritage d'avant la rupture entre Orient et Occident. Sans enjamber de manière désinvolte cette séparation, fruit d'une histoire plus récente, la prise de conscience de plus en plus vive de cet espace commun de civilisation devrait être promesse d'un autre avenir.

L'écriture, la raison, les dieux

L'Orient ancien et Nous

Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux

Pourquoi, dans la Grèce ancienne, les hommes refusaient-ils de se regarder dans un miroir ? Et pourquoi en réservaient-ils l'usage aux femmes ? A partir d'un très riche matériau littéraire et artistique, Jean-Pierre Vernant et Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux montrent comment les Grecs se voyaient et comment ils voyaient leurs femmes, dégageant les premiers fondements de la représentation de soi. S'inscrivant dans l'histoire de l'imaginaire social, Dans l'œil du miroir nous invite à une promenade en Grèce ancienne qui nous éclaire, par la modernité de ses thèmes, sur ce que nous sommes et ne sommes plus, autrement dit, sur nous-mêmes et l'autre.Jean-Pierre Vernant est professeur honoraire au Collège de France. Fondateur du centre Louis-Guernet, il est l'auteur de très nombreux ouvrages, parmi lesquels Mythe et Pensée chez les Grecs et L'individu, la mort, L'amour.Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux est membre du Centre Louis-Guernet, et sous-directeur au Collège de France. Elle a récemment publié Du Masque au visage. Aspects de l'identité grecque. Avant-propos Ulysse en personne I. Miroir, petit miroir... II. Des mots, des choses et des images III. Entre miroir et quenouille IV. Figures V. La vue mode d'emploi VI. Aristote et les règles VII. Un objet paradoxal VIII. Le philosophe et le débauché IX. Au-delà du miroir X. Narcisse et ses doubles XI. Les métamorphoses de Narcisse XII. Réflexions Au miroir de PénélopeBibliographie Photos Notes.

Dans l'œil du miroir

Filosofische inleiding tot de levenskunst.

Jean-Pierre Vernant

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