Jean-Pierre Vernant in the context of "Metis (mythology)"

⭐ In the context of Metis, Jean-Pierre Vernant employed the goddess as a concept primarily within which academic discipline?

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⭐ Core Definition: Jean-Pierre Vernant

Jean-Pierre Vernant (French: [vɛʁnɑ̃]; January 4, 1914 – January 9, 2007) 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. He was an honorary professor at the Collège de France.

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👉 Jean-Pierre Vernant in the context of Metis (mythology)

Metis (/ˈmtɪs/; Ancient Greek: Μῆτις, romanizedMêtis; Modern Greek: Μήτις, meaning 'Wisdom', 'Skill', or 'Craft'), in ancient Greek religion and mythology, was the pre-Olympian goddess of wisdom, counsel and deep thought, and a member of the Oceanids. She is notable for being the advisor and first wife of Zeus, the king of the gods. She first helped him to free his siblings from their father Cronus's stomach and later helped their daughter Athena to escape from the forehead of Zeus, who swallowed both mother and child after it was foretold that she would bear a son mightier than his father.

Metis has been applied as a concept of literary criticism, notably by Jean-Pierre Vernant, along with Marcel Detienne.

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Jean-Pierre Vernant in the context of Marcel Detienne

Marcel Detienne (French: [dətjɛn]; October 11, 1935, Liège, Belgium – March 21, 2019, Nemours, France) was a Belgian historian and specialist in the study of ancient Greece. He was a professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he held the Basil L. Gildersleeve chair in Classics.

Along with Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Detienne has sought to apply an anthropological approach, informed by the structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss, to classical and archaic Greece.

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