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9780226854342

Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?: An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination

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  • ISBN13:

    9780226854342

  • ISBN10:

    0226854345

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1988-06-15
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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"[Veyne's] present book has some kinship with his sprightly theoretical workComment on ecrit l'histoire; and he declares that its aim was to provoke reflection on the way our conception of truth is built up and changes over the centuries. . . . The style is brilliant and exhilarating."--Jasper Griffin,Times Literary Supplement

Table of Contents

Translator's Note ix
Preface xi
Introduction 1(4)
When Historical Truth Was Tradition and Vulgate
5(12)
The Plurality and Analogy of True Worlds
17(10)
The Social Distribution of Knowledge and the Modalities of Belief
27(14)
Social Diversity of Beliefs and Mental Balkanization
41(18)
Behind This Sociology an Implicit Program of Truth
59(12)
Restoring Etiological Truth to Myth
71(8)
Myth and Rhetorical Truth
79(16)
Pausanias Entrapped
95(8)
Forger's Truth, Philologist's Truth
103(14)
The Need to Choose between Culture and Belief in a Truth
117(14)
Notes 131(24)
Index 155

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