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The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece

Detienne, MarcelVidal-Naquet, Pierre(Foreword by)Lloyd, Janet(Translated by)
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The acclaimed French classicist Marcel Detienne's first book traces the odyssey of "truth," aletheia, from mytho-religious concept to philosophical thought in archaic Greece.

Detienne begins by examining how truth in Greek literature first emerges as an enigma.

He then looks at the movement from a religious to a secular thinking about truth in the speech of the sophists and orators.

His study culminates with an original interpretation of Parmenides' poem on Being.

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Product Details
Zone Books
0942299868 / 9780942299861
Paperback / softback
180
12/01/1999
United States
English
231 p.
23 cm
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Reprint. This translation originally published: 1996.