Marcel Detienne

Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece (Book)

Marcel Detienne

ISBN:9780674021259

"Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece" looks at the anthropology of the Greeks and other cultures across space and time, and in the process discovers aspects of the art of comparability...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:121

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The Daily Life of the Greek Gods (Book)

Marcel Detienne

ISBN:9780804736145

Despite the rousing stories of male heroism in battles, the Trojan War transcended the activities of its human participants. For Homer, it was the gods who conducted and accounted for what happened. In the first part of this book...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:312

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The Gardens of Adonis (Book)

Marcel Detienne

ISBN:9780691001043

Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:256

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Comparing the Incomparable (Book)

Marcel Detienne;Janet Lloyd

ISBN:9780804757508

In "Comparing the Incomparable," Marcel Detienne challenges the cordoning off of disciplines that prevent us from asking trans-cultural questions that would permit one society to shed light on another. Some years ago...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:108

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Comparing the Incomparable (Book)

Marcel Detienne;Janet Lloyd

ISBN:9780804757492

In "Comparing the Incomparable," Marcel Detienne challenges the cordoning off of disciplines that prevent us from asking trans-cultural questions that would permit one society to shed light on another. Some years ago...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:136

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The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks (Book)

Marcel Detienne;Paula Vernant Jean PierreWissing

ISBN:9780226143538

For the Greeks, the sharing of cooked meats was the fundamental communal act, so that to become vegetarian was a way of refusing society. It follows that the roasting or cooking of meat was a political act...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:284

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The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece (Book)

Marcel Detienne;Pierre Vidal-Naquet

ISBN:9780942299861

The acclaimed French classicist Marcel Detienne's first book traces the odyssey of "truth," "aletheia," from mytho-religious concept to philosophical thought in archaic Greece...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:232

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The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece (Book)

Marcel Detienne;Janet Vidal-Naquet PierreLloyd

ISBN:9780942299854

foreword by Pierre Vidal-Naquet "The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece," the acclaimed French classicist Marcel Detienne's first book, traces the odyssey of "truth...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:232

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The Writing of Orpheus: Greek Myth in Cultural Context (Book)

Marcel Detienne;Janet Lloyd

ISBN:9780801869549

Son of a mortal king and an immortal Muse, Orpheus possessed a gift for music unmatched among humans; with his lyre he could turn the course of rivers...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:216

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