Books written by Marcel Detienne

  • The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks
    The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks

    The right hand of the second officiant poised behind the skyphos on the bovine's withers corresponds exacdy to the hand that brandishes the pelekw. The one reverses the meaning of the other. The Blood of a Tuna Stricdy speaking, ...

  • Comparing the Incomparable
    Comparing the Incomparable

    A deliberately post-deconstructionist manifesto against the dangers of incommensurability, Marcel Detienne's book argues for and engages in the constructive comparison of societies of a great temporal and spatial diversity.

  • The Writing of Orpheus: Greek Myth in Cultural Context
    The Writing of Orpheus: Greek Myth in Cultural Context

    The allure of his music speaks through the myths and stories of the Greeks and Romans, who tell of his mysterious compositions, with lyrics that only the initiated could understand after undergoing secret rites.

  • Dionysos Slain
    Dionysos Slain

    Dionysos Slain

  • Dionysos at Large
    Dionysos at Large

    As the perpetual stranger Dionysos is the embodiment of strangeness. He is nowhere at home, and yet in another sense the world is his home. Detienne evokes the manic activity...

  • The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology - Second Edition
    The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology - Second Edition

    Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis.

  • The Cuisine of Sacrifice among the Greeks

    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 ...

  • The Daily Life of the Greek Gods
    The Daily Life of the Greek Gods

    Discusses the everyday life of the gods of the Iliad, including what their bodies were made of, how they received nourishment, their social life on Olympus and among humans, and their loves, festivities, and disputes.

  • Comparing the Incomparable
    Comparing the Incomparable

    A deliberately post-deconstructionist manifesto against the dangers of incommensurability, Marcel Detienne's book argues for and engages in the constructive comparison of societies of a great temporal and spatial diversity.

  • Cunning Intelligence in Greek Culture and Society

    Cunning Intelligence in Greek Culture and Society

  • Comparer l'incomparable
    Comparer l'incomparable

    Comparer l'incomparable

  • Comparer l'incomparable: oser expérimenter et construire

    "La science historique est née avec et pour la Nation.

  • The Greeks and Us
    The Greeks and Us

    The work of Marcel Detienne has made an enormous impact on our thinking about the Greeks in areas such as rationality, literacy and mythology, and in this new volume he challenges once again our conception of the Greeks and their impact on ...