Marcel Detienne (; October 11, 1935,
Liège
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, Belgium – March 21, 2019,
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, France
''Marcel Detienne''
at École pratique des hautes études
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, March 22, 2019.) was a Belgian historian
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and specialist in the study of ancient Greece
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. He was a professor at Johns Hopkins University
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, where he held the Basil L. Gildersleeve chair in Classics
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.
Along with Jean-Pierre Vernant
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and Pierre Vidal-Naquet
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, Detienne has sought to apply an anthropological
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approach, informed by the structuralism
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of Claude Lévi-Strauss
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, to classical and archaic Greece
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.
Biography
Detienne received his ''Doctorat en sciences religieuses'' at the ''École des Hautes Études
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'' in 1960, and his ''Doctorat en philosophie et lettres'' from the University of Liège
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History
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in 1965.
Detienne was at one time a ''directeur d'études'' at the ''École pratique des hautes études
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'', where he taught until 1998. He was also a founder of the ''Centre de recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes'' in Paris. Detienne began teaching in the Department of Classics at Johns Hopkins University
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in 1992.
Bibliography
*''Homère, Hésiode et Pythagore: poésie et philosophie dans le pythagorisme ancien'' (1962)
*''Crise agraire et attitude religieuse chez Hésiode'' (1963)
*''De la pensée religieuse à la pensée philosophique'' (1963)
*''Les Maîtres de vérité dans la Grèce archaïque'' (1967; trans. Janet Lloyd, ''The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece'' (1996)
*''Les Jardins d'Adonis'' (1972; trans. Janet Lloyd, ''The Gardens of Adonis'', 1977; 2nd ed. 1994)
*''Les ruses de l'intelligence: la métis des Grecs'' (with Jean-Pierre Vernant
Jean-Pierre Vernant (; 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, traged ...
, 1974; trans. Janet Lloyd, ''Cunning Intelligence in Greek Culture and Society'', 1978)
*''Dionysos mis à mort'' (1977; trans. Mireille & Leonard Muellener, ''Dionysos Slain'', 1979)
*''La cuisine du sacrifice en pays grec'' (with Jean-Pierre Vernant et al., 1979; trans. Paula Wissing, ''The Cuisine of Sacrifice among the Greeks'', 1989)
*''L'invention de la mythologie'' (1981; trans. Margaret Cook, ''The Creation of Mythology'', 1986)
*''Dionysos à ciel ouvert'' (1986; trans. Arthur Goldhammer
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Goldhammer studied mathematics at MIT, gaining his PhD in 1973.
Career
Since 1977 he has worked as a translator. He is based at the Center for Euro ...
, ''Dionysos at Large'', 1989)
*''Les Savoirs de l’écriture en Grèce ancienne'' (with Georgio Camassa, 1988)
*''L' écriture d'Orphée'' (1989; trans. Janet Lloyd, ''The Writing of Orpheus: Greek Myth in Cultural Context'', 2003)
*''La vie quotidienne des dieux grecs'' (with Giulia Sissa, 1989; trans. Janet Lloyd, ''The Daily Life of the Greek Gods'', 2000)
*''Apollon le couteau à la main'' (1998)
*''Comparer l'incomparable'' (2002; trans. Janet Lloyd, ''Comparing the Incomparable'', 2008)
*''Comment être autochtone: du pur Athénien au Français raciné'' (2003)
*''Qui veut prendre la parole?'' (2003)
*''Les Grecs et nous'' (2005; trans. Janet Lloyd, ''The Greeks and Us: A Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece'', 2007)
As editor or co-editor
*''Transcrire les mythologies: tradition, écriture, historicité'' (1994)
*''Destin de Meurtriers'' (1996)
References
External links
''Marcel Detienne, le déconstructeur''
interview by François Gauvin Marcel in ''Le Point
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'', February 2012.
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1935 births
2019 deaths
20th-century Belgian historians
Historians of antiquity
Johns Hopkins University faculty
University of Liège alumni
University of Paris alumni
Academic staff of the University of Paris
Rhetoricians
Scholars of Greek mythology and religion
Belgian expatriates in France
Belgian expatriates in the United States
21st-century Belgian historians