From Myth to Reason? Studies in the

It is often said that Greek civilization underwent a transition from myth to reason. But what does this assertion mean? Is it true? Were the Greeks special in having evolved our sort of reason, or is that a mirage? In this book, some of the world's leading experts on ancient Greek myth, religion, philosophy, and history reconsider these fundamental issues.

Preface	p. v
Notes on the Contributors	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
History of a Polarity	p. 23
From Logos to Mythos	p. 25
Myth and Reason in Practice	p. 49
Re-Evaluating Gernet: Value and Greek Myth	p. 51
Rationalization and Disenchantment in Ancient Greece: Max Weber among the Pythagoreans and Orphics?	p. 71
Mythical Logic	p. 85
The Logic of Cosmogony	p. 87
Myth, Memory, and the Chorus: 'Tragic Rationality'	p. 107
Polarities Dissolved	p. 117
The Rhetoric of Muthos and Logos: Forms of Figurative Discourse	p. 119
Mythology: Reflections from a Chinese Perspective	p. 145
Myth And/Or/Into History and Ethnography	p. 167
Euenius the Negligent Nightwatchman (Herodotus 9. 92-6)	p. 169
'Myth into Logos': the Case of Croesus, or the Historian at Work	p. 183
Monsters in Greek Ethnography and Society in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries Bce	p. 197
Rationalizing Myth: Methods and Motives in Palaephatus	p. 215
Demythologizing the Past, Mythicizing the Present: Myth, History, and the Supernatural at the Dawn of the Hellenistic Period	p. 223
Philosophers' Myths	p. 249
What Is a Muthos for Plato?	p. 251
Myth, History, and Dialectic in Plato's Republic and Timaeus-Critias	p. 263
Myth and Logos in Aristotle	p. 279
Myth, Reason, and Techniques	p. 293
The Use of Purple in Cooking, Medicine, and Magic: an Example of Interference by the Imaginary in Rational Discourse	p. 295
Mythical Production: Aspects of Myth and Technology in Antiquity	p. 317
Bibliography	p. 329
Index	p. 357
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