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1. Jean-Pierre , Vernant

Mito

Abbiamo tutti bisogno del mito. Non solo e non tanto perché ci piace o perché addirittura ne siamo appassionati, ma perché abbiamo tutti bisogno di una cornice in cui inquadrare noi stessi e il nostro presente. Il mito seduce l'immaginazione, meraviglia, ma soprattutto offre radici al nostro pensiero perché, ci insegna Vernant, quello che a prima vista sembrerebbe «un guazzabuglio di favole strampalate» poggia piuttosto su fondamenta profondissime, che hanno consentito ai Greci di costruire il loro mondo spirituale e materiale. Insomma, sebbene nessuno creda, e probabilmente abbia mai creduto anche nell'antichità, che le storie di eroi e dèi siano vere, che sia realmente esistita un'Afrodite uscita dalle acque o un'Atena nata dalla testa di Zeus, tutta la civiltà occidentale continua a figurarsi all'interno dell'orizzonte intellettuale tracciato quasi tremila anni fa dal mito greco. Come sostiene Andrea Marcolongo nella sua prefazione, «il mito greco si rivela ancora oggi il perimetro entro il quale pratichiamo l'esercizio del pensiero - e con cui misuriamo il grado raggiunto o mancato della nostra civiltà».

People and Land

This book addresses the impacts of the strikes by empires upon land and people, the traditions that fund and sanctify those ventures, and the spinoffs that they inspire. The contributors engage and interrogate these assaults on the land and people, and oblige theologians and biblical studies scholars to confront modern empires.

1. Vernon L Smith

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

1. Marcel Detienne
2. Jean-Pierre Vernant

The Cuisine of Sacrifice among the Greeks

For the Greeks, the sharing of cooked meats was the fundamental communal act, so that to become vegetarian was a way of refusing society. It follows that the roasting or cooking of meat was a political act, as the division of portions asserted a social order. And the only proper manner of preparing meat for consumption, according to the Greeks, was blood sacrifice. The fundamental myth is that of Prometheus, who introduced sacrifice and, in the process, both joined us to and separated us from the gods—and ambiguous relation that recurs in marriage and in the growing of grain. Thus we can understand why the ascetic man refuses both women and meat, and why Greek women celebrated the festival of grain-giving Demeter with instruments of butchery. The ambiguity coded in the consumption of meat generated a mythology of the "other"—werewolves, Scythians, Ethiopians, and other "monsters." The study of the sacrificial consumption of meat thus leads into exotic territory and to unexpected findings. In The Cuisine of Sacrifice, the contributors—all scholars affiliated with the Center for Comparative Studies of Ancient Societies in Paris—apply methods from structural anthropology, comparative religion, and philology to a diversity of topics: the relation of political power to sacrificial practice; the Promethean myth as the foundation story of sacrificial practice; representations of sacrifice found on Greek vases; the technique and anatomy of sacrifice; the interaction of image, language, and ritual; the position of women in sacrificial custom and the female ritual of the Thesmophoria; the mythical status of wolves in Greece and their relation to the sacrifice of domesticated animals; the role and significance of food-related ritual in Homer and Hesiod; ancient Greek perceptions of Scythian sacrificial rites; and remnants of sacrificial ritual in modern Greek practices.

1. Marcel Detienne

The Gardens of Adonis

Recasts various ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis. This book challenges Sir James Frazer's thesis that the vegetation god Adonis represented the annual cycle of growth and decay in agriculture. It uses the analytic tools of structuralism and shows instead that the festivals of Adonis depict a seductive but impotent and fruitless deity.

1. Harold Koenig
2. Dana King
3. Verna B. Carson

Handbook of Religion and Health

The Handbook of Religion and Health has become the seminal research text on religion, spirituality, and health, outlining a rational argument for the connection between religion and health. The Second Edition, authored by three physicians, has been completely updated and revised.