Ch. 1. The structure of myth -- ch. 2. Barthes : myth as meaningful form -- ch. 3. Levi-Strauss and the problems of Oedipus -- ch. 4. Vernant : a logic of the equivocal -- ch. 5. Detienne : the empirical categories of myth -- ch. 6. Vidal-Naquet : a factotum of history -- ch. 7.…
The Gernet Centre was founded as a place where the structural method could be applied to the classics. 'Structuralists' attribute the survival, origin and function of myths to common crosscultural factors they identify as 'structures'. As this book, first published as The Struct…
