Ancient Greece. Volume 1, From Myth to Reason.
Points| N° d'inventaire | 25026 |
| Format | 110 x 178 mm |
| Détails | 257 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 1990 |
| Etat | Occasion |
| ISBN | 9782020124119 |
How to read a myth? What deciphering procedures does a modern interpreter use to restore the true meaning of the legendary story? What is the relationship between philosophy and tradition? How was positive thinking formed in ancient Greece?
The task of the historian, explains Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet here, is not to pit one against the other, through a precise analysis of the texts, the theological discourse of the poets and the later writings of the philosophers and historians, to identify the divergences in my modes of composition, the vocabulary, the conceptual tools, the logic of the narration.
By rereading the great mythical and philosophical texts in this way, from Hesiod's Theogony to Plato's Cratias and Politics , Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet have decisively illuminated the mental universe of the ancient Greeks. Here we find gathered the contributions, now classic, which have, for thirty-five years, punctuated this intellectual journey from myth to reason.
How to read a myth? What deciphering procedures does a modern interpreter use to restore the true meaning of the legendary story? What is the relationship between philosophy and tradition? How was positive thinking formed in ancient Greece?
The task of the historian, explains Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet here, is not to pit one against the other, through a precise analysis of the texts, the theological discourse of the poets and the later writings of the philosophers and historians, to identify the divergences in my modes of composition, the vocabulary, the conceptual tools, the logic of the narration.
By rereading the great mythical and philosophical texts in this way, from Hesiod's Theogony to Plato's Cratias and Politics , Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet have decisively illuminated the mental universe of the ancient Greeks. Here we find gathered the contributions, now classic, which have, for thirty-five years, punctuated this intellectual journey from myth to reason.