Did the Greeks believe in their myths? : an essay on the constitutive imagination /

Did the Greeks believe in their myths? : an essay on the constitutive imagination /

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Author / Creator:Veyne, Paul, 1930-
Uniform title:Grecs ont-ils cru à leurs mythes? English
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Description:xii, 161 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
French
Subject:
Mythology, Greek
Mythology, Greek.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/934206
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ISBN:0226854337 : $23.00 (est.)
0226854345 (pbk.) : $9.95 (est.)
Notes:Translation of: Les Grecs ont-ils cru à leurs mythes?
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 131-153.
Table of Contents:
  • Translator's Note
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. When Historical Truth Was Tradition and Vulgate
  • 2. The Plurality and Analogy of True Words
  • 3. The Social Distribution of Knowledge and the Modalities of Belief
  • 4. Social Diversity of Beliefs and Mental Balkanization
  • 5. Behind This Sociology an Implicit Program of Truth
  • 6. Restoring Etiological Truth to Myth
  • 7. Myth and Rhetorical Truth
  • 8. Pausanias Entrapped
  • 9. Forger's Truth, Philologist's Truth
  • 10. The Need to Choose between Culture and Belief in a Truth
  • Notes
  • Index

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