Myth and philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato:
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Main Author: Morgan, Kathryn A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-301) and indexes
Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Theoretical issues; 3 Some Presocratics; 4 The sophists and their contemporaries; 5 The Protagoras: Platonic myth in the making; 6 The range of Platonic myth; 7 Plato: myth and the soul; 8 Plato: myth and theory; 9 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of passages cited; General index
This book explores the complex relationship between myth and philosophy in writings by Greek intellectuals between the late sixth and mid fourth centuries BC. It shows how Plato and other philosophers used myth to express philosophic problems and traces a tradition of strictly rational and philosophical myth through two centuries
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 313 pages)
ISBN:0511017677
0511035209
0511050445
9780511017674
9780511035203
9780511050442

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