From Myth to Reason? Studies in the Development of Greek Thought
by Buxton, RichardFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-09-23
Publisher(s): Clarendon Press
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Summary
It is often said that Greek civilization underwent a transition from myth to reason. But what does this assertion mean? Is it true? Were the Greeks special in having evolved our sort of reason, or is that a mirage? In this book, some of the world's leading experts on ancient Greek myth, religion, philosophy, and history reconsider these fundamental issues.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. v |
| Notes on the Contributors | p. ix |
| Abbreviations | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| History of a Polarity | p. 23 |
| From Logos to Mythos | p. 25 |
| Myth and Reason in Practice | p. 49 |
| Re-Evaluating Gernet: Value and Greek Myth | p. 51 |
| Rationalization and Disenchantment in Ancient Greece: Max Weber among the Pythagoreans and Orphics? | p. 71 |
| Mythical Logic | p. 85 |
| The Logic of Cosmogony | p. 87 |
| Myth, Memory, and the Chorus: 'Tragic Rationality' | p. 107 |
| Polarities Dissolved | p. 117 |
| The Rhetoric of Muthos and Logos: Forms of Figurative Discourse | p. 119 |
| Mythology: Reflections from a Chinese Perspective | p. 145 |
| Myth And/Or/Into History and Ethnography | p. 167 |
| Euenius the Negligent Nightwatchman (Herodotus 9. 92-6) | p. 169 |
| 'Myth into Logos': the Case of Croesus, or the Historian at Work | p. 183 |
| Monsters in Greek Ethnography and Society in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries Bce | p. 197 |
| Rationalizing Myth: Methods and Motives in Palaephatus | p. 215 |
| Demythologizing the Past, Mythicizing the Present: Myth, History, and the Supernatural at the Dawn of the Hellenistic Period | p. 223 |
| Philosophers' Myths | p. 249 |
| What Is a Muthos for Plato? | p. 251 |
| Myth, History, and Dialectic in Plato's Republic and Timaeus-Critias | p. 263 |
| Myth and Logos in Aristotle | p. 279 |
| Myth, Reason, and Techniques | p. 293 |
| The Use of Purple in Cooking, Medicine, and Magic: an Example of Interference by the Imaginary in Rational Discourse | p. 295 |
| Mythical Production: Aspects of Myth and Technology in Antiquity | p. 317 |
| Bibliography | p. 329 |
| Index | p. 357 |
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