Mortals and Immortals
Collected Essays
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2574353 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Goldhill (0000-0002-1946-4839, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 891 |
| Publication date | 1992-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Mortals and Immortals, Jean-Pierre Vernant, 1991 |
| Venue | Man (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-1496 • E-ISSN: 2397-2548 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2804192 |
| OpenAlex | W396654973 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
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
Art · Literature · Classical Antiquity Studies · Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning · Historical and Literary Analyses · History
The Genealogy of the Political. The Age of Heroes and the Revolt of Youth
Dialectic of Deception
Philosophy as Autobiography
You Can Only Die Thrice
The Meaning of Meat and the Structure of the Odyssey
Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics
The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture
Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad
Critical History and Ethics
The Unpardoned Gaze
The Viennese Invention of Late Antiquity
Writing the Art, Archaeology and Religion of the Roman Mediterranean
Mystery Cult and Material Culture in the Graeco-Roman World
Animal sacrifice in Greek tragedy
Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity
Connecting Art and Zoroastrianism in Sasanian Studies
Nero and the Senate
Friend and Hero
Plato on Mimesis and Mirrors
Antigone's Two Laws
Ascetic Theology Before Asceticism? Jewish Narratives and the Decentering of the Self
Homeric Religion
Narrativa en imágenes de la tumba de Amenmose (TT318)
Seeing the invisible
Beheading the Gorgon
Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity
Ovid's Lovers
Imagined Democracies
Illud tempusin Greek myth and ritual
The Chryselephantine Doors of the Parthenon
Kristeva, Stoicism, and the "True Life of Interpretations"
Me and My Shadows
Source and trace
The qualities of fat
Technologies of Dismemberment
The study of religion(s) in Western Europe III
The warrior queen
Representing Transcendence
When superman Smote Zeus
Images of the defeated
(Visual) Disability – from exclusive perspectives to inclusive differences
Sport, War and Democracy in Classical Athens
Aeschylus’ Pandora — Helen in the Agamemnon
Cheeks, Jaws, Effort and Auletics
Dionysos Comes to Thrace
Prostitutes, Plonk, and Play
Contextualizing Quintus
The Ghost of Clytemnestra in the Eumenides
Counterfeit Oracles" and "Legal Tender
Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry
Ancient Greek Deathscapes
Cosmetics and Sôphrosunê
Hestia and Eos
Interiority, the ‘Deep Earth’ and the Spatial Symbolism of Darius' Apparition in the Persians of Aeschylus
Pompey’s Head and Cato’s Snakes
Art and an Archaeology of Embodiment
Memory in Vergil's Aeneid
On the Sauce
Mutilation of the Dead and the Homeric Gods
Blood, Honour and Status in Odyssey 11
Ismene's Forced Choice
Apparitions Apparent
Unmarked Space
Homer and the Art of Overtaking
Working women’
The artistry of the Homeric simile
Life, Sovereignty, and Terror in the Fiction of Amos Tutuola
The musical imperative
Surveillance and cultural Panopticism
Staging the Ephebeia
Frommythostologos
An Archaeology of Remembering
The "Beautiful Death" from Homer to Democratic Athens
Ethnographica Moralia
Stories of Sacrifice
Homeric Thumos
O que nos diz a arte kaxinawa sobre a relação entre identidade e alteridade
Materiality and Cosmology
Competing for Liberty
Our Beer
Aging Well
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |