Mortals and Immortals: Collected EssaysJean-Pierre Vernant has profoundly transformed our perceptions of ancient Greece. Published in 1991, this collection of nineteen essays probes deeply into themes of enduring interest--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, more broadly, the concept of otherness itself, or "alterity." |
Contents
Mortals and Immortals The Body of the Divine | 27 |
A Beautiful Death and the Disfigured Corpse in Homeric Epic | 50 |
India Mesopotamia Greece Three Ideologies of Death | 75 |
Panta Kala From Homer to Simonides | 84 |
Gender | 93 |
Feminine Figures of Death in Greece | 95 |
Death in the Eyes Gorgo Figure of the Other | 111 |
Image | 139 |
The Figure and Functions of Artemis in Myth and Cult | 195 |
Artemis and Rites of Sacrifice Initiation and Marriage | 207 |
Between Shame and Glory The Identity of the Young Spartan Warrior | 220 |
Artemis and Preliminary Sacrifice in Combat | 244 |
Theory | 259 |
History and Psychology | 261 |
Greek Religion Ancient Religons | 269 |
A General Theory of Sacrifice and the Slaying of the Victims in the Greek Thusia | 290 |
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