Description Jean-Pierre Vernant\'s concise, brilliant essay on the Origins of Greek Thought relates the cultural achievement of the ancient Greeks to their physical and social environment and shows that what they believed in was inseparable from the way they lived.
Vernant points out that when the focus of Mycenaean society.
The emergence of rational thought, Vernant claims, is closely linked to the advent of the open-air politics that characterized life in the Greek polis.
Description Jean-Pierre Vernant\'s concise, brilliant essay on the Origins of Greek Thought relates the cultural achievement of the ancient Greeks to their physical and social environment and shows that what they believed in was inseparable from the way they lived