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Jean-Pierre Vernant

Jean-Pierre Vernant (French: [vn ]; January 4, 1914 January 9, 2007) was a


French historian and anthropologist, specialist inancient Greece. Influenced by Claude LviStrauss, 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 Collge
de France.

Biography[edit]
Born in Provins, France, Vernant at first studied philosophy, receiving his agrgation in this field
in 1937.
A member of the Young Communists (Jeunes Communistes), Vernant joined the French
Resistance during World War II and was a member of Libration-sud (founded byEmmanuel
d'Astier). He later commanded the French Interior Forces (FFI) in Haute-Garonne under the
pseudonym of "Colonel Berthier." He was a Companion of the Liberation. After the war, he
remained a member of the French Communist Party until 1969.
He entered the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in 1948 and, under the
influence of Louis Gernet, turned to the study of ancient Greek anthropology. Ten years later, he
became director of studies at the cole des hautes tudes en sciences sociales (EHESS). In
1971 he was professor in the University of So Paulo.[1] This visit was also an act of protest that
he made with Franois Chtelet against the brazilian military government (dictatorship).
He was a member of the French sponsorship committee for the Decade for the Promotion of a
Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World. He supported the funding
organisation Non-Violence XXI.
He was awarded the CNRS gold medal in 1984. In 2002, he received an honorary doctorate at
the University of Crete.
Vernant died a few days after his 93rd birthday in Svres.
After his death, his name was given to a French highschool in Svres, le "Lycee Jean-Pierre
Vernant".

Influence[edit]
The structuralist approach pioneered by Vernant has been influential on a wide range of classical
scholars. More specifically, Vernant's reading of the myth of Prometheus was an important

influence on philosopher Bernard Stiegler's book, Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of
Epimetheus.

Criticism[edit]
Vernant's approach has been heavily criticized, particularly among Italian philologists, even by
those of Marxist tendencies. He has been accused of a fundamentally ahistoricalapproach,
allegedly going as far as to manipulate his sources by describing them in categories which do not
apply (polysemy and ambiguity).[2]

Awards[edit]

Awards and prizes[edit]

Mdaille d'or du CNRS, 1984

Premio di Storia, San Marino, 1991

American Academy Award for Humanistic Studies, 1992

Commandeur de la Lgion d'honneur

Compagnon de la Libration

Croix de Guerre

Grand Officier dans l'Ordre national du Mrite

Commandeur de l'Ordre de l'Honneur de la Rpublique Hellnique

Officier de lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres

Doctor Honoris Causa[edit]

University of Chicago

University of Bristol

Masaryk University of Brno

University of Naples

University of Oxford

University of Crete (2002)

New Bulgarian University (2004)

Other awards[edit]

Associate member of the Acadmie royale de Belgique

Foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy

Honorary Member of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies

Membre de l'Academia Europaea

Select publications[edit]

Les origines de la pense grecque (Paris), 1962 (= Origins of Greek Thought, 1982)

Mythe et pense chez les Grecs: Etudes de psychologie historique (Paris), 1965 (= Myth
and Thought among the Greeks, 1983)

With Pierre Vidal-Naquet: Mythe et tragdie en Grce ancienne, 2 vols. (Paris), 1972,
1986 (= Tragedy and Myth in Ancient Greece, 1981; Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece,
1988)

Mythe et socit en Grce ancienne (Paris), 1974 (= Myth and Society in Ancient Greece,
1978)

Divination et rationalit, 1974

With Marcel Detienne: Les ruses de l'intelligence: La mtis des Grecs (Paris), 1974
(= Cunning Intelligence in Greek Culture and Society, 1977)

Religion grecque, religions antiques (Paris), 1976

Religion, histoires, raisons (Paris), 1979

With Marcel Detienne: La cuisine de sacrifice en pays grec (Paris), 1979 (= Cuisine of
Sacrifice among the Greeks, 1989)

With Pierre Vidal-Naquet: Travail et esclavage en Grce ancienne (Brussels), 1988

L'individu, la mort, l'amour: soi-mme et l'autre en Grce ancienne (Paris), 1989

Mythe et religion en Grce ancienne (Paris), 1990

Figures, idoles, masques (Paris), 1990

With Pierre Vidal-Naquet: La Grce ancienne, 3 vols. (Paris), 199092

Mortals and Immortals: Collected Essays (Princeton), 1991

With Pierre Vidal-Naquet: dipe et ses mythes (Brussels), 1994

Entre mythe et politique (Paris), 1996

With Jean Bottro and Clarisse Herrenschmidt: (French) L'orient ancien et nous (Paris),
1996. (English) Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia,
Elam, and Greece, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. University of Chicago Press,
2000. ISBN 978-0226067155.

With Franoise Frontisi-Ducroux: Dans l'il du miroir (Paris), 1997

L'univers, les dieux, les hommes: rcits grecs des origines Paris, Le Seuil, 1999 (= The
Universe, The Gods, and Men: Ancient Greek Myths, 2001)

La traverse des frontires (Paris), 2004

References[edit]
1.

Jump up^ http://www.fflch.usp.br/df/site/index.php?pg=hom_jpv.html Official Webpage of


the Faculty of Philosophy (University of So Paulo) (Portuguese)

2.

Jump up^ Vincenzo Di Benedetto, La tragedia greca di Jean-Pierre Vernant,


in: Belfagor 32 (1977), p. 461-468; see also Vincenzo Di Benedetto, L'ambiguo nella tragedia
greca: una categoria fuorviante, in: Euripide "Medea", introd. di V. Di Benedetto, trad. di E. Cerbo,
p. 62-75, Milan 1997.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Vernant

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