The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece

by Marcel Detienne

• ISBN13: 9780942299861
• ISBN10: 0942299868
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-27
• Publisher: Zone Books
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Summary

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. A Zone Book

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Preface to the American Edition	p. 15
Truth and Society	p. 35
The Memory of the Poet	p. 39
The Old Man of the Sea	p. 53
The Ambiguity of Speech	p. 69
The Process of Secularization	p. 89
A Choice between Aletheia and Apate	p. 107
Ambiguity and Contradiction	p. 135
Notes	p. 139
Complementary Bibliography	p. 215
Index	p. 219
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