Mit și gândire în Grecia antică (excerpts)

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Excerpts - only the chapter three, "The Organization of the space" - from one of Vernant's finest books, "Myth and Thought Among the Greeks", which is to be find here, in the genesis library, along with its sister-work (both in French and Romanian), "Mythe et religion en Grèce ancienne", respectively, "Mit şi religie în Grecia Antică". Aside the exaggerations of the structuralist method (and of the French School altogether, plagued by a basic social - leftist - perspective), there is much (or at least enough) to be find and noted here Chapter three - The Organization of Space - comprises: 1. Hestia-Hermes: The religious expression of Space and Movement in Ancient Greece 2. Geometry and Spherical Astronomy in Early Greek Cosmology 3. Geometric Structure and Political Ideas in the Cosmology of Anaximander 4. Space and Political Organization in Ancient Greece