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Logoi and muthoi : further essays in Greek philosophy and literature /

In 'Logoi and Muthoi', William Wians builds on his earlier volume 'Logos and Muthos' (ISBN 9781438427362), highlighting the richness and complexity of these terms that were once set firmly in opposition to one another as reason versus myth or rationality versus irrationality. It...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wians, William Robert (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]
Colección:SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Xenia, hiketeia, and the Homeric language of morals : the origins of Western ethics / Kevin Robb
  • The muses' faithful servant : moral knowledge in Homer, Hesiod, and Xenophanes / William Wians
  • How philosophy is rooted in tradition : stories describing the appearance of man and woman in ancient Greece / Luc Brisson
  • Muthos and logos on New Year's Day : trial and error in Anaximander's seasonal sundial / Robert Hahn
  • Tragic values in Homer and Sophocles / Lawrence J. Hatab
  • Sketches of Oedipus in Sophocles's play about tyranny / Marina Marren
  • Helen and the divine defense : Homer, Gorgias, Euripides / Ruby Blondell
  • The hero and the saint : Sophocles's Antigone and Plato's Socrates / Roslyn Weiss
  • Myth and argument in Glaucon's account of Gyges's ring and Adeimantus's use of poetry / Marina McCoy
  • Myth inside the walls : Er and the argument of the Republic / Pierre Destrée
  • Priam's despair and courage : an Aristotelian reading of fear, hope, and suffering in Homer's Iliad / Marjolein Oele
  • Poets as philosophers and philosophers as poets : Parmenides, Plato, Lucretius, and Wordsworth / A.A. Long