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Greek Mythology and Religion

Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece

by Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet · Janet Lloyd (trans.)

Essays by two leading French scholars that read Greek tragedy as a product of the democratic city, exploring its tensions between heroic myth and civic values. It includes Vernant's critique of the Freudian reading of Oedipus. A classic of structuralist and historical interpretation.

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