Did the Greeks believe in their myths? : an essay on the constitutive imagination
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0226854337
ISBN 13
9780226854335
Category
Publication Year
1988
Publisher
Subject
Mythology, Greek.; Mythologie grecque
Description
xii, 161 pages ; 23 cm; Translation of: Les Grecs ont-ils cru à leurs mythes?; When Historical Truth Was Tradition and Vulgate -- The Plurality and Analogy of True Words -- The Social Distribution of Knowledge and the Modalities of Belief -- Social Diversity of Beliefs and Mental Balkanization -- Behind This Sociology an Implicit Program of Truth -- Restoring Etiological Truth to Myth -- Myth and Rhetorical Truth -- Pausanias Entrapped -- Forger's Truth, Philologist's Truth -- The Need to Choose between Culture and Belief in a Truth -- Notes -- Index.;
Biblio Notes
16759118
Number of Copies
1
