Bücher von Jean-Pierre Vernant

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.

Es war einmal - die Geschichte der alten Griechen, die Mythen von den Ursprüngen der Menschheit. Jean-Pierre Vernant erzählt in diesem wunderbaren Band von der Entmannung des Uranos, den Listen des Zeus, von der Erfindung der Frau, den Abenteuern von Europa, dem lahmen Ödipus oder vom Wettstreit mit den Gorgonen. Dabei treffen wir auf lauter alte Bekannte: Mutter Erde und Prometheus, Odysseus und die Helden aus dem Trojanischen Krieg. Jean-Pierre Vernant breitet die griechischen Mythen in einer ebenso klaren wie spannungsvollen Geschichte vor uns aus.

Published in 1991, this collection of nineteen essays delves into themes such as: death, the body, the soul, the individual, and relations between mortals and immortals; the mask, the mirror, the image, and the imagination; the self and the other, and the concept of otherness itself, or "alterity."

Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature.