Product Description: Si le Japon contemporain nous semble proche, ce n'est pas seulement a cause d'une occidentalisation initiee a la fin du XIXe siecle. C'est aussi le resultat d'une dynamique intellectuelle autochtone, nee au moins trois cents ans plus tot, et dont les medecins ont ete un des moteurs essentiels...read more

Product Description: The human race is all too pre-disposed to think in terms of us and them. Europeans have always laid claim to the Ancient Greeks they are our Greeks, our ancestors but their legacy reaches further than we could ever imagine. Their influence stretches from the Japanese to the Cossacks, from Ancient Rome to Indonesia...read more

Product Description: The human race is all too pre-disposed to think in terms of us and them. Europeans have always laid claim to the Ancient Greeks they are our Greeks, our ancestors but their legacy reaches further than we could ever imagine. Their influence stretches from the Japanese to the Cossacks, from Ancient Rome to Indonesia...read more

Product Description: 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. Historians and ethnologists can pool a wealth of knowledge about different cultures across space and time...read more

Product Description: Obviamente, los griegos no son una tribu como las demás. Desde el momento en que hablamos del «nosotros» –de nosotros y de los otros–, inevitablemente, los griegos constituyen realmente el quid de la cuestión. De ahí el interés en situarlos en perspectiva, en confrontar las maneras de transcribir l...read more

Product Description: La autoctonía, el ser original de la propia tierra, es el origen de los orgullos nacionales; las sociedades buscan delimitarse en el pasado ancestral y el sentimiento nacional se funda sobre un origen puro, sobre los muertos de la madre patria, sobre la tierra de los ancestros...read more

Discusses the everyday life of the gods of the Iliad, including what their bodies were made of, how they received nourishment, their social life on Olympus and among humans, and their loves, festivities, and disputes. (view table of contents)

foreword by Pierre Vidal-Naquet 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. Detienne begins by examining how truth in Greek literature first emerges as an enigma. He then looks at the movement from a religious to a secular thinking about truth in the speech of the sophists and orators. His study culminates with an original interpretation of Parmenides' poem on Being.

Product Description: 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. The author challenges Sir James Frazer's thesis that the vegetation god Adonis-- whose premature death was mourned by women and whose resurrection marked a joyous occasion--represented the annual cycle of growth and decay in agriculture...read more

Discusses the unique characteristics of the Greek god Dionysus, who is associated with strangers, epiphanies, the shedding of blood and the pouring of wine

Product Description: Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. A good, clean, copy. Some annotation & underlining, unfortunately in red ink, which doesn't detract from the contents.

Product Description: Análisis ejemplar de un ciclo mítico griego realizado por un teórico de reconocido prestigio internacional.