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From myth to reason? : studies in the development of Greek thought / edited by Richard Buxton.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 368 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585159998
  • 9780585159997
  • 9780198152347
  • 0198152345
  • 1280764651
  • 9781280764653
  • 9786610764655
  • 6610764654
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: From myth to reason?.DDC classification:
  • 180 21
LOC classification:
  • BL782 .F76 1999eb
Other classification:
  • 08.21
  • 15.51
Online resources:
Contents:
From logos to mythos / Glenn W. Most -- Re-evaluating Gernet : value and Greek myth / Sitta von Reden -- Rationalization and disenchantment in ancient Greece : Max Weber among the Pythagoreans and Orphics? / Jan Bremmer -- The logic of cosmogony / Walter Burkert -- Myth, memory, and the chorus : 'tragic rationality' / John Gould -- The rhetoric of Muthos and Logos : forms of figurative discourse / Claude Calame -- Mythology : reflections from a Chinese perspective / Geoffrey Lloyd -- Euenius the negligent nightwatchman (Herodotus 9. 92-6) / Alan Griffiths -- 'Myth into Logos' : the case of Croesus, or the historian at work / Fran�cois Hartog -- Monsters in Greek ethnography and society in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE / Dominique Lenfant -- Rationalizing myth : methods and motives in Palaephatus / Jacob Stern -- Demythologizing the past, mythicizing the present : myth, history, and the supernatural at the dawn of the Hellenistic period / Albert Henrichs -- What is a Muthos for Plato? / Penelope Murray -- Myth, history, and dialectic in Plato's Republic and Timaeus-Critias / Christopher Rowe -- Myth and Logos in Aristotle / Thomas K. Johansen -- The use of purple in cooking, medicine, and magic : an example of interference by the imaginary in rational discourse / Mireille B�elis -- Mythical production : aspects of myth and technology in antiquity / Fritz Graf.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-355) and index.

From logos to mythos / Glenn W. Most -- Re-evaluating Gernet : value and Greek myth / Sitta von Reden -- Rationalization and disenchantment in ancient Greece : Max Weber among the Pythagoreans and Orphics? / Jan Bremmer -- The logic of cosmogony / Walter Burkert -- Myth, memory, and the chorus : 'tragic rationality' / John Gould -- The rhetoric of Muthos and Logos : forms of figurative discourse / Claude Calame -- Mythology : reflections from a Chinese perspective / Geoffrey Lloyd -- Euenius the negligent nightwatchman (Herodotus 9. 92-6) / Alan Griffiths -- 'Myth into Logos' : the case of Croesus, or the historian at work / Fran�cois Hartog -- Monsters in Greek ethnography and society in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE / Dominique Lenfant -- Rationalizing myth : methods and motives in Palaephatus / Jacob Stern -- Demythologizing the past, mythicizing the present : myth, history, and the supernatural at the dawn of the Hellenistic period / Albert Henrichs -- What is a Muthos for Plato? / Penelope Murray -- Myth, history, and dialectic in Plato's Republic and Timaeus-Critias / Christopher Rowe -- Myth and Logos in Aristotle / Thomas K. Johansen -- The use of purple in cooking, medicine, and magic : an example of interference by the imaginary in rational discourse / Mireille B�elis -- Mythical production : aspects of myth and technology in antiquity / Fritz Graf.

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