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      Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust

      Pierre Vidal-Naquet

      An account of one of the more curious realities of contemporary French culture: the prominence accorded to revisionism . This is an attempt on the part of a specific group…

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      Politics Ancient and Modern

      Pierre Vidal-Naquet

      This study re-examines the nature of Greek politics and democracy, and explores the ways in which they have been perceived since the Renaissance. It shows how the nature of political…

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      Economic and Social History of Ancient Greece: An Introduction

      M.M. Austin,Pierre Vidal-Naquet

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      The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World

      Pierre Vidal-Naquet

      The black hunter travels through the mountains and forests of Greek mythology. Taking its title from this mythological figure, this book approaches the Greek world by charting the elaborate system…

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      The Atlantis Story: A Short History of Plato’s Myth

      Pierre Vidal-Naquet

      Presents the history of development through the ages of Plato’s Atlantis story - the imperialist island state that disappeared in a cataclysm, leaving Athens to survive it. Instead of simply…

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      The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece

      Marcel Detienne

      This volume traces the odyssey of truth aletheia , from mytho-religious concept to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. The book begins with an examination of how truth in Greek literature…

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      Cleisthenes the Athenian: An Essay on the Representation of Space and Time in Greek Political Thought from the End of the Sixth Century to the Death of Plato

      Pierre Leveque,Pierre Vidal-Naquet

      Presents a study of the reforms in Athens in 507/506 bce that led to the birth of democracy. Focusing on the creation of a secular civic space and time, this…

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      Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece

      Jean-Pierre Vernant,Pierre Vidal-Naquet

      Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature.

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      Les Images de l'Historien: Dialogue Avec Francois Soulages

      Pierre Vidal-Naquet (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociale, Paris)

      Includes transcript of an interview held at the Maison europaeenne de la photographie on May 9, 2006.

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      The Jews: History, Memory and the Present

      Pierre Vidal-Naquet

      These essays treat a range of issues from the ancient Jewish revolt against Roman rule and the much-mythologized martyrdom at Masada, the French Revolution, and Marxism’s difficulties with the Jewish…

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      Cleisthenes the Athenian

      Vidal Naquet,Pierre Leveque

      Offers a study of the philosophical, political, and aesthetic background and significance of the reforms of Cleisthenes. This book features an English translation containing the complete text of the original…

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      Myth, Religion and Society

      R. L. Gordon,Marcel Detienne,Louis Gernet,Jean-Pierre Vernant,Pierre Vidal-Naquet

      The essays in this volume explore different aspects of the relation between Greek myth and Greek thought between the Archaic period (Homer and Hesiod) and the Hellenistic period, highlighting both…

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