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Author : William Wians
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438427430
Explores the philosophical dimensions present in the works of ancient Greek poets and playwrights.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004493377
This book contains fifteen essays all seeking to regain the original meaning of philosophy as the love of wisdom. Mythos and Logos are two essential aspects of a quest that began with the ancient Greeks. As concepts fundamental to human experience, Mythos and Logos continue to guide the search for truth in the twenty-first century.
Author : William Wians
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438474908
In Logoi and Muthoi, William Wians builds on his earlier volume Logos and Muthos, 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 was once common to think of intellectual history representing a straightforward progression from mythology to rationality. These volumes, however, demonstrate the value of taking the two together, opening up and analyzing a range of interactions, reactions, tensions, and ambiguities arising between literary and philosophical forms of discourse, including philosophical themes in works not ordinarily considered in the canon of Greek philosophical texts. This new volume considers such topics as the pre-philosophical origins of Anaximander's calendar, the philosophical significance of public performance and claims of poetic inspiration, and the complex role of mythic figures (including perhaps Socrates) in Plato. Taken together, the essays offer new approaches to familiar texts and open up new possibilities for understanding the roles and relationships between muthos and logos in ancient Greek thought.
Author : Luc Brisson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226075192
We think of myth as a fictional story, and Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. But Plato also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of muthos in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech that he believed was far superior: the logos of philosophy. Appearing for the first time in English, Plato the Myth Maker is a solid and important contribution to the history of myth, based on the privileged testimony of one of its most influential critics and supporters.
Author : William Wians
Publisher : Suny Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076002904725
Explores the philosophical dimensions present in the works of ancient Greek poets and playwrights.
Author : William Wians
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438474892
Essays on Greek philosophy and literature from Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle. In Logoi and Muthoi, William Wians builds on his earlier volume Logos and Muthos, 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 was once common to think of intellectual history representing a straightforward progression from mythology to rationality. These volumes, however, demonstrate the value of taking the two together, opening up and analyzing a range of interactions, reactions, tensions, and ambiguities arising between literary and philosophical forms of discourse, including philosophical themes in works not ordinarily considered in the canon of Greek philosophical texts. This new volume considers such topics as the pre-philosophical origins of Anaximander’s calendar, the philosophical significance of public performance and claims of poetic inspiration, and the complex role of mythic figures (including perhaps Socrates) in Plato. Taken together, the essays offer new approaches to familiar texts and open up new possibilities for understanding the roles and relationships between muthos and logos in ancient Greek thought. “This is a stellar effort. The essays are all of extremely high quality and interest. The scholarship is rigorous and the content is innovative. The conception of the book is highly original, well-grounded, and well-thought-out. William Wians’s work as a scholar and as an editor has been consistently first-rate, and with this volume he has surpassed himself.” — Rose M. Cherubin, George Mason University
Author : Ivana Marková
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781107002555
Marková offers a dialogical perspective to problems in daily life and professional practices involving communication, care, and therapy.
Author : Lisa Atwood Wilkinson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441165282
Parmenides and To Eon offers a new historical and philosophical reading of Parmenides of Elea by exploring the significance and dynamics of the oral tradition of ancient Greece. The book disentangles our theories of language from what evidence suggests is an archaic Greek experience of speech. With this in mind, the author reconsiders Parmenides' poem, arguing that the way we divide up his text is inconsistent with the oral tradition Parmenides inherits. Wilkinson proposes that, although Parmenides may have composed his poem in writing, it is probable that the poem was orally performed rather than silently read. This book explores the aural and oral components of the poem and its performance in terms of their significance to Parmenides' philosophy. Wilkinson's approach yields an interpretative strategy that permits us to engage with the ancient Greeks in terms closer to their own without, however, forgetting the historical distance that separates us or sacrificing our own philosophical concerns.
Author : George F. Butterick
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780520318410
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.
Author : Dale Launderville
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802845054
Ancient kings who did not honor the gods overlooked an indispensable means for ruling effectively in their communities. In many traditional societies royal authority was regarded as a divine gift bestowed according to the quality of the relationship of the king both to God or the gods and to the people. The tension and the harmony within these human and divine relationships demanded that the king repeatedly strive to integrate the community's piety with his political strategies. This fascinating study explores the relationship between religion and royal authority in three of history's most influential civilizations: Homeric Greece, biblical Israel, and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia. Dale Launderville identifies similar, contrasting, and analogous ways that piety functioned in these distinct cultures to legitimate the rule of particular kings and promote community well-being. Key to this religiopolitical dynamic was the use of royal rhetoric, which necessarily took the form of political theology. By examining a host of ancient texts and drawing on the insights of philosophers, poets, historians, anthropologists, social theorists, and theologians, Launderville shows how kings increased their status the more they demonstrated through their speech and actions that they ruled on behalf of God or the gods. Launderville's work also sheds light on a number of perennial questions about ancient political life. How could the people call the king to account? Did the people forfeit too much of their freedom and initiative by giving obedience to a king who symbolized their unity as a community? How did the religious traditions serve as a check on the king's power and keep alive the voice of the people? This study in comparative political theology elucidates these engaging concerns from multiple perspectives, making Piety and Politics of interest to readers in fields ranging from biblical studies and theology to ancient history and political science.
Author : James Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0906112117
Author : Loren D. Marsh
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783949189043
This book presents a new analysis of Aristotle's concept of narrative in the Poetics. Arguing that the term muthos in the Poetics cannot be understood as equivalent to "plot," Marsh shows that the muthos concept is instead a useful tool for grouping larger sets of narratives based on specific criteria. The results of this muthos analysis indicate that in the classical period, neither formal structure nor the structure of events was determined by theatrical genre, but by the specific combination of tone and plot type. Marsh concludes that the category of genre itself may be less helpful for classifying these plays than is typically assumed.
Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400977204
Author : Ekaterina V. Haskins
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Logos (Philosophy)
ISBN : 1570035261
Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle presents Isocrates' vision of discourse as a worthy rival, rather than a mere precursor, of Aristotle's Rhetoric. It argues that much of what Aristotle said about the status of rhetoric and the role of discourse may have been a reaction to Isocrates.
Author : Lowell Edmunds
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110696240
This new series aims to provide state of the art guides to research in Classical Studies (across the fields of Language and Literature, Ancient History, Archaeology, and Ancient Philosophy and Science) that explore the key themes and ideas shaping previous scholarship on individual authors, genres, and topics. Each volume is authored by a prominent scholar in the respective field and offers a critical reappraisal of research conducted in recent decades that illuminates the state of contemporary scholarship. With its paperback volumes, the series is perfectly designed to offer students and scholars reliable, stimulating guides to what really matters in important fields of classical research today, as well as suggestions for future lines of study.
