The masters of truth in Archaic Greece
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The masters of truth in Archaic Greece
Zone Books , Distributed by the MIT Press, 1996
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Maîtres de vérité dans la Grèce archaïque
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-217) and index
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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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