| Antiquities Contributor(s): Loraux, Nicole (Editor), Nagy, Gregory (Author), Slatkin, Laura M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1565843762 ISBN-13: 9781565843769 Publisher: New Press OUR PRICE: $36.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2001 Annotation: Since 1945, the innovative approaches of a group of French scholars have profoundly altered the study of classical antiquity. Drawing on work in anthropology, religion, psychology, philology, and the new history, Antiquities offers major critical texts that have transformed the field of classics in the last half century. With seminal essays by Louis Gernet, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Nicole Loraux, Marcel Detienne, and their colleagues (many newly translated for this volume), Antiquities provides a rich perspective on society, politics, myth, gender, literary genre, and everyday life in the ancient world. An introduction and extensive notes explore the impact of a range of disciplines on these influential classicists' thinking. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece - History | Europe - France - History | Historiography |
| Dewey: 938 |
| LCCN: 00022323 |
| Series: New Press Postwar French Thought |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.43" W x 9.46" (1.83 lbs) 481 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Greece - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Since 1945, the innovative approaches of a group of French scholars have profoundly altered the study of classical antiquity. Drawing on work in anthropology, religion, psychology, philology, and the new history, Antiquities offers major critical texts that have transformed the field of classics in the last half century. With seminal essays by Louis Gernet, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Nicole Loraux, Marcel Detienne, and their colleagues (many newly translated for this volume), Antiquities provides a rich perspective on society, politics, myth, gender, literary genre, and everyday life in the ancient world. An introduction and extensive notes explore the impact of a range of disciplines on these influential classicists' thinking. |