From myth to reason? : studies in the development of Greek thought /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1999. |
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| Description: | xv, 368 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3983930 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Notes on the Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I. History of a Polarity
- 1. From Logos to Mythos
- II. Myth and Reason in Practice
- 2. Re-Evaluating Gernet: Value and Greek Myth
- 3. Rationalization and Disenchantment in Ancient Greece: Max Weber among the Pythagoreans and Orphics?
- III. Mythical Logic
- 4. The Logic of Cosmogony
- 5. Myth, Memory, and the Chorus: 'Tragic Rationality'
- IV. Polarities Dissolved
- 6. The Rhetoric of Muthos and Logos: Forms of Figurative Discourse
- 7. Mythology: Reflections from a Chinese Perspective
- V. Myth And/Or/Into History and Ethnography
- 8. Euenius the Negligent Nightwatchman (Herodotus 9. 92-6)
- 9. 'Myth into Logos': the Case of Croesus, or the Historian at Work
- 10. Monsters in Greek Ethnography and Society in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries Bce
- 11. Rationalizing Myth: Methods and Motives in Palaephatus
- 12. Demythologizing the Past, Mythicizing the Present: Myth, History, and the Supernatural at the Dawn of the Hellenistic Period
- VI. Philosophers' Myths
- 13. What Is a Muthos for Plato?
- 14. Myth, History, and Dialectic in Plato's Republic and Timaeus-Critias
- 15. Myth and Logos in Aristotle
- VII. Myth, Reason, and Techniques
- 16. The Use of Purple in Cooking, Medicine, and Magic: an Example of Interference by the Imaginary in Rational Discourse
- 17. Mythical Production: Aspects of Myth and Technology in Antiquity
- Bibliography
- Index