The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece
Book Details
Author(s)
Marcel Detienne
Publisher
Zone Books
ISBN / ASIN
0942299868
ISBN-13
9780942299861
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Sales Rank
#1,120,604
Category
Philosophy
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United States 🇺🇸
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Description
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.
