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.Jean Pierre-Vernant is Professor                  Emeritus of Comparative Study of Ancient Religions at the Coll?ge de France in                  Paris. Janet Lloyd is a translator and writer living in England. Distributed for                  Zone Books.

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