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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
R G A Buxton |
| ISBN: | 0198152345 9780198152347 |
| OCLC Number: | 40489109 |
| Description: | xv, 368 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | From logos to mythos / Glenn W. Most -- Re-evaluating Gernet : value and Greek myth / Sitta von Reden -- Rationalization and disenchantment in ancient Greece : Max Weber among the Pythagoreans and Orphics? / Jan Bremmer -- The logic of cosmogony / Walter Burkert -- Myth, memory, and the chorus : 'tragic rationality' / John Gould -- The rhetoric of Muthos and Logos : forms of figurative discourse / Claude Calame -- Mythology : reflections from a Chinese perspective / Geoffrey Lloyd -- Euenius the negligent nightwatchman (Herodotus 9. 92-6) / Alan Griffiths -- 'Myth into Logos' : the case of Croesus, or the historian at work / François Hartog -- Monsters in Greek ethnography and society in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE / Dominique Lenfant -- Rationalizing myth : methods and motives in Palaephatus / Jacob Stern -- Demythologizing the past, mythicizing the present : myth, history, and the supernatural at the dawn of the Hellenistic period / Albert Henrichs -- What is a Muthos for Plato? / Penelope Murray -- Myth, history, and dialectic in Plato's Republic and Timaeus-Critias / Christopher Rowe -- Myth and Logos in Aristotle / Thomas K. Johansen -- The use of purple in cooking, medicine, and magic : an example of interference by the imaginary in rational discourse / Mireille Bélis -- Mythical production : aspects of myth and technology in antiquity / Fritz Graf. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Richard Buxton. |
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