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A review by motifenjoyer
Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Jean-Pierre Vernant
informative
4.5
"What is this being that tragedy describes as a deinos, an incomprehensible and baffling monster, both an agent and one acted upon, guilty and innocent, lucid and blind, whose industrious mind can dominate the whole of nature yet who is incapable of governing himself?"
Some essays are stronger + more compelling than others but the best are really great. My favorites: "The Historical Moment of Tragedy in Greece," "Tensions and Ambiguities in Greek Tragedy," "Oedipus Without the Complex," and "The Masked Dionysus of Euripides' Bacchae." (They're all Vernant's essays rather than Vidal-Naquet's, lol.)
Some essays are stronger + more compelling than others but the best are really great. My favorites: "The Historical Moment of Tragedy in Greece," "Tensions and Ambiguities in Greek Tragedy," "Oedipus Without the Complex," and "The Masked Dionysus of Euripides' Bacchae." (They're all Vernant's essays rather than Vidal-Naquet's, lol.)