The Black Hunter
Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5815472 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas J Figueira (0000-0002-6957-8033), Pierre Vidal‐naquet, Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Bernard M W Knox, Bernard Knox |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 933-933 |
| Publication date | 1987-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The black hunter: Forms of thought and forms of society in the Greek world, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, 1986 |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1863966 |
| OpenAlex | W2010579771 |
| Language | EN |
No one can fail admire the brilliance of the connections Vidal-Naquet suggests ...Audacity has been characteristic of Vidal-Naquet's career from the start; it marked his activities as a historian engage in the political struggle; it is visible at work in every page of this book.-Bernard Knox, from the Foreword The black hunter travels through the mountains and forests of Greek mythology, living on the frontier of the city-state, of adulthood, of class, of ethics, of sexuality. Taking its title from this figure, The Black Hunter approaches the Greek world from its margins and charts the elaborate system of oppositions that pervaded Greek culture and society: cultivated and wild, citizen and foreigner, real and imaginary, god and man. Organizing his discussions around four principle themes-space and time; youth and warriors; women, slaves, and artisans; and the city of vision and of reality-Pierre Vidal-Naquet focuses on the congruence of the textual and the actual, on the patterns that link literary, philosophical, and historical works with such social activities as war, slavery, education, and commemoration. The Black Hunter probes the interplay of world view, language, and social practice to bring into dialogue that which does not naturally communicate according the usual criteria of historical judgement. A brilliant demonstration of structural analysis and its usefulness in illuminating well-known texts and providing fresh insights ...What strikes the reader of this book is its daring, innovative interpretations. This is not a book that merely collects new information or synthesizes old views. It bursts into the heart of important themes and floods them with bright light.-Modern Greek Studies Yearbook One of the liveliest intellects in the field ...There is a wealth of learning in this book; specialists ...will wish consult individual articles while the general reader will not only learn but enjoy its contents and tenor.-Classical World Excellent ...Vidal-Naquet's book is a gem. It will stimulate further thoughts, discussions and writings on the Greek politeia and politikon. It should be read by all those who are involved in classical and comparative studies. It puts into circulation a structuralist reading which is provocative and simultaneously rings true.-V. Y. Mudimbe, Journal of Ritual Studies
Art · Frontier · Judgement · Literature · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The Imaginary · Classical Antiquity Studies · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies · History · Law · Psychology
The Genealogy of the Political. The Age of Heroes and the Revolt of Youth
Slaves, Stories, and Cults
Who's the Father? Biological and Literary Inheritance in Statius' Thebaid
The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World
Ritual and Archaic States
Hunting
Ethnicity and the Stage
The Serpent Column
The Origins of Mythography as a Genre
Slaves in Greek literary culture
The Unpardoned Gaze
Warfare and the state
Slavery in the late Roman world
Slavery in the Roman Republic
The slave supply in classical Greece
Slave labour and Roman society
Time and Space
War and society
After Alexander
Slavery and the Greek family
Introduction to Volume II
The Helots
Slavery in the Hellenistic world
Slavery Under the Principate
Archaeology and Greek slavery
The modern historiography of ancient warfare
Slavery in the ancient Near East
The Greek Cult of Heracles
A New Persian War
Slavery and economy in the Greek world
Resistance among chattel slaves in the classical Greek world
Traditional Religion in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
Slavery and Roman material culture
Slavery and the Roman family
Roman Religion through the Early Republic
Religions of Roman Spain
Panhellenism
Warfare in ancient literature
Meaning
Resisting slavery at Rome
Conclusion
Slavery and Roman literary culture
Reconstructing ancient warfare
Archaic and Classical Greek Religion
Classical Athens
The Roman slave supply
Aristotle's Natural Slaves
The Agonistic Ethic and the Spirit of Inquiry
Plato and the Persian Wars
Artemis and Her Territory
Archive Feelings
The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare
Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity
The Archaeology of Etruscan Society
The Politics of Sacrifice in Early Greek Myth and Poetry
The Cambridge World History of Slavery
The Psychology of the Athenian Hoplite
Eros and Sexuality in Antiquity
Deleuze's Reversal of Platonism, Revisited
Anthropology
The Greeks and Anthropology
Pain, Fear, and Circumcision in Boys’ Adolescent Initiation Ceremonies
Askesis as Aesthetic Home
Aeschylus' Eumenides
Enslaved Persons and Their Multiple Identities in Ancient Societies
Reading the Chigi Vase
The Place of Publication of the Ephebic Oath and the “Oath of Plataia”
A Trickster'S Oaths in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes
Demosthenes 21 ( Against Meidias )
New Worlds from Old Texts
States of Memory
The Wolfish Lover
Odysseus and the stag
From Homer to Solon
The Greeks and the New
Initiation, not Indoctrination
Did the Greeks know democracy
Staging the Ephebeia
Frommythostologos
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