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The masters of truth in Archaic Greece
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The masters of truth in Archaic Greece

Author: Marcel Detienne
Publisher: New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 1996.
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The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece traces the odyssey of "truth," Aletheia, from mythoreligious to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. Marcel Detienne's starting point is a simple observation: In archaic Greece, three figures - the diviner, the bard, and the king - all share the privilege of dispensing truth by virtue of the religious power of divine memory which provides them with knowledge, both oracular  Read more...
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Detienne, Marcel.
Masters of truth in Archaic Greece.
New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 1996
(OCoLC)654887247
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Marcel Detienne
ISBN: 094229985X 9780942299854
OCLC Number: 33041807
Description: 231 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Foreword / Pierre Vidal-Naquet --
Truth and Society --
The Memory of the Poet --
The Old Man of the Sea --
The Ambiguity of Speech --
The Process of Secularization --
A Choice between Aletheia and Apate --
Ambiguity and Contradiction.
Other Titles: Maîtres de vérité dans la Grèce archaïque.
Responsibility: Marcel Detienne ; foreword by Pierre Vidal-Naquet ; translated by Janet Lloyd.

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The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece traces the odyssey of "truth," Aletheia, from mythoreligious to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. Marcel Detienne's starting point is a simple observation: In archaic Greece, three figures - the diviner, the bard, and the king - all share the privilege of dispensing truth by virtue of the religious power of divine memory which provides them with knowledge, both oracular and inspired, of the present, past, and future. Beginning with this definition of the prerational meaning of truth, Detienne proceeds to elaborate the complex conceptual and historical contexts from which emerges the philosophical notion of truth still influencing Western philosophy today.

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