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Plato the Myth Maker

By Luc Brisson , Gerard Naddaf

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2000
ISBN
9780226075198, 0226075192
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (1725152 bytes)
Pages
244\233
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He 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 description of muthos in light of the latter's Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth with another form of speech that Plato believed was far superior: the logos of philosophy.

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