A review by iammyowngodandmartyr
Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Jean-Pierre Vernant

5.0

I agree with the authors' approach to analysis (tragic works must be interpreted in their own particular context), although it was presented as quite the hot take. I guess it was pretty revolutionary when the articles were published in the 80s? The academic writing was certainly not transparent (and they're also FRENCH good grief the syntactic superfluousness) but I usually really liked the ideas presented. I generally enjoyed Vernant's articles more than Vidal-Naquet's though, I thought they were much more focused and insightful.

Complaints: Endnotes instead of footnotes and an absolutely egregious number of commas.