The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece

The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece

The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece

9780942299854

    Detienne, Marcel

    17-Jul-1996

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foreword by Pierre Vidal-Naquet 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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