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Author: William Wians
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010-07-02
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1438427433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the philosophical dimensions present in the works of ancient Greek poets and playwrights.
Author: William Wians
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2019-05-09
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1438474903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Lisa Atwood Wilkinson
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2009-08-09
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1847062458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn important new study offering a new historical and philosophical insight into Parmenides in light of the oral tradition of ancient Greece.
Author: Ivana Marková
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-09
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1107002559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarková offers a dialogical perspective to problems in daily life and professional practices involving communication, care, and therapy.
Author: Luc Brisson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000-12-15
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780226075198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe think of myth as a fictional story, and Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. But Plato also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of muthos in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech that he believed was far superior: the logos of philosophy. Appearing for the first time in English, Plato the Myth Maker is a solid and important contribution to the history of myth, based on the privileged testimony of one of its most influential critics and supporters.
Author: Ekaterina V. Haskins
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781570035265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLogos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle presents Isocrates' vision of discourse as a worthy rival, rather than a mere precursor, of Aristotle's Rhetoric. It argues that much of what Aristotle said about the status of rhetoric and the role of discourse may have been a reaction to Isocrates.
Author: Robert Wardy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1134459165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis lively and original guidebook offers an invitation to the study of Greek philosophy and signposts to lead the student deeper. The reader is drawn in to the questions the philosophers posed. Doing Greek Philosophy conveys a vital sense of the dynamism and continuity in the Greek philosophical tradition, and shows how interaction between the philosophers creates and sustains that tradition. It concentrates on a set of interrelated concepts and problems – contradiction, relativism, refutation and consistency – which appear in the tradition, and show how philosophers dealt with them. The author considers not just what the philosophers were doing, but also what they thought they were doing. The goal is not simply to inform readers about Greek philosophy, but also to equip them with an intellectual toolkit, and to encourage them to use it. The reader will come away from this book with a set of good questions and the means to probe them further. Accessibly written, the book will appeal to philosophers at every level, and its concision will make it the ideal starting point for the beginner in philosophy.
Author: Lowell Edmunds
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: 2021-06-30
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9783110682335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides a guide to research in the field of Greek Myth, introducing the main questions, theories and methods related to the study of Greek Myth today. The author points out, with critical reappraisal, the key themes and ideas in recent scholarship and makes suggestions for future lines of study. Aimed at students and scholars in Classics, it will also be of interest to larger audiences in the Humanities.
Author: Roger D. Woodard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-11-12
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 1107495113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfessor Roger Woodard brings together a group of the world's most authoritative scholars of classical myth to present a thorough treatment of all aspects of Greek mythology. Sixteen original articles guide the reader through all aspects of the ancient mythic tradition and its influence around the world and in later years. The articles examine the forms and uses of myth in Greek oral and written literature, from the epic poetry of 8th century BC to the mythographic catalogues of the early centuries AD. They examine the relationship between myth, art, religion and politics among the ancient Greeks and its reception and influence on later society from the Middle Ages to present day literature, feminism and cinema. This Companion volume's comprehensive coverage makes it ideal reading for students of Greek mythology and for anyone interested in the myths of the ancient Greeks and their impact on western tradition.
Author: Claude Calame
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-05-28
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0521888581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that the meaning of Greek myths can only be studied according to their artistic forms of expression. Using myths such as those of Persephone, Bellerophon, Helen and Teiresias, Claude Calame surveys Greek mythology as a category inseparable from the literature in which so much of it is found.
