by Jean-Pierre Vernant · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433961419
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«El universo, los dioses, los hombres» is Jean-Pierre Vernant's essay on Greek mythology, published by Anagrama in paperback.
Jean-Pierre Vernant gives new voice to the myths of ancient Greece with a tone close to oral storytelling. The book explores the origin of the universe, the war of the gods and humanity's relationship with the divine, with episodes such as the castration of Uranus, the wiles of Zeus, the journey of Ulysses and the fate of Oedipus.
Volume 250 of Anagrama's Argumentos collection. Translated from French by Joaquín Jordá; original title: L'Univers, les Dieux, les Hommes.
Aimed at the general reader, as well as students or enthusiasts of mythology and classical philosophy.
Jean-Pierre Vernant was a French resistant, historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, tragedy, and society which would itself be influential among classical scholars. He was an honorary professor at the Collège de France.
