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June 2006
6 x 9, 505 pp.
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ISBN-10:
1-890951-60-9
ISBN-13:
978-1-890951-60-3

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From Zone Books:
Myth and Thought among the Greeks
Jean-Pierre Vernant
Translated by Janet Lloyd and Jeff Fort


Preface to the 1985 Edition9
Introduction13
Part One: Myth Structures
I.Hesiod's Myth of the Races: An Essay in Structural Analysis25
II.Hesiod's Myth of the Races: A Reassessment53
III.Structural Method and the Myth of the Races89
Part Two: Mythical Aspects of Memory and Time
IV.Mythic Aspects of Memory115
V.The River Ameles and the Melete Thanatou139
Part Three: The Organization of Space
VI.Hestia-Hermes: The Religious Expression of Space and Movement in Ancient Greece157
VII.Geometry and Spherical Astronomy in Early Greek Cosmology197
VIII.Geometric Structure and Political Ideas in the Cosmology of Anaximander213
IX.Space and Political Organization in Ancient Greece235
Part Four: Work and Technological Thought
X.Prometheus and the Technological Function263
XI.Work and Nature in Ancient Greece275
XII.Some Psychological Aspects of Work in Ancient Greece293
XIII.Some Remarks on the Forms and Limitations of Technological Thought among the Greeks299
Part Five: The Psychological Category of the Double
XIV.The Figuration of the Invisible and the Psychological Category of the Double: The Kolossos321
XV.From the "Presentification" of the Invisible to the Imitation of Appearance333
Part Six: Personal Identity and Religion
XVI.Some Aspects of Personal Identity in Greek Religion353
Part Seven: From Myth to Reason
XVII.The Formation of Positivist Thought in Archaic Greece371
XVIIIThe Origins of Philosophy399
Notes409
Index497
 
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