Ancient World

Mortals and Immortals: Collected Essays

    Edited by
  • Froma I. Zeitlin

Paperback

Price:
$60.00/£48.00
ISBN:
Published:
Jan 21, 1991
1991
Pages:
314
Size:
6 x 9 in.
Main_subject:
Ancient World
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Jean-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.”