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Plato the Myth Maker
Plato the Myth Maker
Author: Luc Brisson
The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Mak...  more », Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted description of muthos in light of the latter's Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth with another form of speech that Plato believed was far superior: the logos of philosophy.
ISBN-13: 9780226075198
ISBN-10: 0226075192
Publication Date: 12/15/2000
Pages: 244
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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