UID:
almafu_9960177928102883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 368 pages).
ISBN:
1-4384-7490-3
Series Statement:
SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy
Content:
"In Logoi and Muthoi, William Wians builds on his earlier volume Logos and Muthos, highlighting the richness and complexity of these terms that were once set firmly in opposition to one another as reason versus myth or rationality versus irrationality. It was once common to think of intellectual history representing a straightforward progression from mythology to rationality. These volumes, however, demonstrate the value of taking the two together, opening up and analyzing a range of interactions, reactions, tensions, and ambiguities arising between literary and philosophical forms of discourse, including philosophical themes in works not ordinarily considered in the canon of Greek philosophical texts. This new volume considers such topics as the pre-philosophical origins of Anaximander’s calendar, the philosophical significance of public performance and claims of poetic inspiration, and the complex role of mythic figures (including perhaps Socrates) in Plato. Taken together, the essays offer new approaches to familiar texts and open up new possibilities for understanding the roles and relationships between muthos and logos in ancient Greek thought."
Note:
From logos and muthos to . . . /
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Xenia, hiketeia, and the Homeric language of morals : the origins of Western ethics /
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The muses' faithful servant : moral knowledge in Homer, Hesiod, and Xenophanes /
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How philosophy is rooted in tradition : stories describing the appearance of man and woman in ancient Greece /
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Muthos and logos on New Year's Day : trial and error in Anaximander's seasonal sundial /
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Tragic values in Homer and Sophocles /
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Sketches of Oedipus in Sophocles's play about tyranny /
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Helen and the divine defense : Homer, Gorgias, Euripides /
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The hero and the saint : Sophocles's Antigone and Plato's Socrates /
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Myth and argument in Glaucon's account of Gyges's ring and Adeimantus's use of poetry /
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Myth inside the walls : Er and the argument of the Republic /
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Priam's despair and courage : an Aristotelian reading of fear, hope, and suffering in Homer's Iliad /
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Poets as philosophers and philosophers as poets : Parmenides, Plato, Lucretius, and Wordsworth /
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4384-7488-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4384-7489-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781438474908
