Antiquities

Postwar French Thought, Volume III

Edited by Nicole Loraux, Gregory Nagy, and Laura Slatkin

hardcover

$40.00

Since 1945, the innovative approaches of a group of French scholars have profoundly altered the study of classical antiquity. Drawing on work in anthropology, religion, psychology, philology, and the new history, Antiquities offers major critical texts that have transformed the field of classics in the last half century.

With seminal essays by Louis Gernet, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Nicole Loraux, Marcel Detienne, and their colleagues (many newly translated for this volume), Antiquities provides a rich perspective on society, politics, myth, gender, literary genre, and everyday life in the ancient world. An introduction and extensive notes explore the impact of a range of disciplines on these influential classicists’ thinking.

Nicole Loraux is the retired chair of the Department of History and Anthropology of the Greek Polis at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Gregory Nagy is the Frances Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature at Harvard University. Laura Slatkin is associate professor of classical languages and literatures at the University of Chicago. Ramona Naddaff is a founding editor of Zone Books, and teaches rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Arthur Goldhammer is an award-winning translator. He lives in Massachusetts.