Mortals and Immortals

Mortals and Immortals
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 0691019312
ISBN-13 : 9780691019314
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Book Synopsis Mortals and Immortals by : Jean-Pierre Vernant

Download or read book Mortals and Immortals written by Jean-Pierre Vernant and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

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