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The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Poetry, Philosophy, and Rhetoric--from myth to reason
 The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece
Marcel Detienne
Manufacturer: Zone Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0942299868

Book Description

foreword by Pierre Vidal-Naquet


The acclaimed French classicist Marcel Detienne's first book traces the odyssey of "truth," aletheia, from mytho-religious concept to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. Detienne begins by examining how truth in Greek literature first emerges as an enigma. He then looks at the movement from a religious to a secular thinking about truth in the speech of the sophists and orators. His study culminates with an original interpretation of Parmenides' poem on Being.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Poetry, Philosophy, and Rhetoric--from myth to reason.......2000-06-11

As a person with interests in rhetoric and philosophy, I found this book intriguing. It examines a shift from myth to reason in Ancient philosophy and explains how the idea of truth changes from a divinely inspired, poetically- informed truth to a truth based in rational thought and reason. For anyone interested in the role of language in ancient thought, this book offers a multitude of references and insights to poetry, oratory, rhetoric, and the power of speech and voice. Aletheia plays a significant role throughout the book and is identified as an important element in the transition from myth to reason or from religious thought to philosophical thought. In tracing these transitions, Detienne covers concepts such as: the ambiguity of speech; a process of secularization as described in distinctions between mythico-religious speech and diologue speech, and; the distinctions between Aletheia and Apate. Packed with a rich selection of resources and classical references, this book offers an intricate tour of classical definitions of truth and toward the end of the text identifies Simonides, Plato, and Parmenides as significant factors in the shift that occurs from myth to reason.
THE MASTERS OF TRUTH IN ARCHAIC GREECE
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    		THE MASTERS OF TRUTH IN ARCHAIC GREECE
    Marcel Detienne
    Manufacturer: Zone Books
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback
    ASIN: B000NXHH3M
    The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece
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      		The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece
      Marcel Detienne
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      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Hardcover
      ASIN: B000MUAJLS

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