ENGLISH

The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece

By Marcel Detienne

Book information

Publisher
Zone Books
Year
1996
ISBN
0-942299-81-X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3776570 bytes)
Pages
232\232
DPI
200
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-03-17 05:10:57

Description

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.

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