The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece

ISBN-13: 9780942299861 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 232 str.

Marcel Detienne; Pierre Vidal-Naquet

Opis

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.