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From myth to reason? : studies in the development of Greek thought

Author: R G A Buxton
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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