Logoi and Muthoi: Further Essays in Greek Philosophy and LiteratureWilliam Wians 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. |
Contents
| 1 | |
| 17 | |
Moral Knowledge in Homer Hesiod and Xenophanes | 55 |
Stories Describing the Appearance of Man and Woman in Ancient Greece | 79 |
Trial and Error in Anaximanders Seasonal Sundial | 95 |
5 Tragic Values in Homer and Sophocles | 135 |
6 Sketches of Oedipus in Sophocless Play about Tyranny | 165 |
Homer Gorgias Euripides | 197 |
9 Myth and Argument in Glaucons account of Gygess Ring and Adeimantuss Use of Poetry | 263 |
Er and the Argument of the Republic | 279 |
An Aristotelian Reading of Fear Hope and Suffering in Homers Iliad | 297 |
Parmenides Plato Lucretius and Wordsworth | 319 |
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About the Contributors | 355 |
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Sophocless Antigone and Platos Socrates | 223 |
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