From myth to reason : studies in the development of Greek thought / edited by Richard Buxton.
From myth to reason : studies in the development of Greek thought / edited by Richard Buxton.
From myth to reason : studies in the development of Greek thought / edited by Richard Buxton.
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Oxford : Clarendon, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N291.13/42
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English
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xv, 368 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Introduction / Richard Buxton -- I. History of a Polarity. 1. From Logos to Mythos / Glenn W. Most -- II. Myth and Reason in Practice. 2. Re-evaluating Gernet: Value and Greek Myth / Sitta von Reden. 3. Rationalization and Disenchantment in Ancient Greece: Max Weber among the Pythagoreans and Orphic...
11. Rationalizing Myth: Methods and Motives in Palaephatus / Jacob Stem. 12. Demythologizing the Past, Mythicizing the Present: Myth, History, and the Supernatural at the Dawn of the Hellenistic Period / Albert Henrichs -- VI. Philosophers' Myths. 13. What Is a Muthos for Plato? / Penelope Murray. 1...
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Oxford : Clarendon, 1999.
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England
Date Published
1999.
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From myth to reason : studies in the development of Greek thought / edited by Richard Buxton.
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Papers presented at a colloquium entitled " Myth into Logos?" in Bristol in July 1996.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N291.13/42
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0198152345 (alk. paper)
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0198152345 :
9780198152347 (alk. paper)
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180
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991011893319702626
