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Jean-Pierre Vernant, French anthropologist and historian (born 1914)

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Jean-Pierre Vernant

French historian and anthropologist (1914–2007)

Jean-Pierre Vernant was a French resistant, historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, tragedy, and society which would itself be influential among classical scholars.…
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