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.

Notes on the Contributors

ix

Abbreviations

xiii

Introduction

1

(24)

Richard Buxton

I HISTORY OF A POLARITY

From Logos to Mythos

25

(26)

Glenn W. Most

II MYTH AND REASON IN PRACTICE

Re-evaluating Gernet: Value and Greek Myth

51

(20)

Sitta von Reden

Rationalization and Disenchantment in Ancient Greece: Max Weber among the Pythagoreans and Orphics?

71

(16)

Jan Bremmer

III MYTHICAL LOGIC

The Logic of Cosmogony

87

(20)

Walter Burkert

Myth, Memory, and the Chorus: `Tragic Rationality'

107

(12)

John Gould

IV POLARITIES DISSOLVED

The Rhetoric of Muthos and Logos: Forms of Figurative Discourse

119

(26)

Claude Calame

Mythology: Reflections from a Chinese Perspective

145

(24)

Geoffrey Lloyd

V MYTH AND/OR/INTO HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY

Euenius the Negligent Nightwatchman (Herodotus 9. 92-6)

169

(14)

Alan Griffiths

`Myth into Logos': The Case of Croesus, or the Historian at Work

183

(14)

Francois Hartog

Monsters in Greek Ethnography and Society in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BCE

197

(18)

Dominique Lenfant

Rationalizing Myth: Methods and Motives in Palaephatus

215

(8)

Jacob Stern

Demythologizing the Past, Mythicizing the Present: Myth, History, and the Supernatural at the Dawn of the Hellenistic Period

223

(28)

Albert Henrichs

VI PHILOSOPHERS' MYTHS

What is a Muthos for Plato?

251

(12)

Penelope Murray

Myth, History, and Dialectic in Plato's Republic and Timaeus-Critias

263

(16)

Christopher Rowe

Myth and Logos in Aristotle

279

(16)

Thomas K. Johansen

VII MYTH, REASON, AND TECHNIQUES

The Use of Purple in Cooking, Medicine, and Magic: An Example of Interference by the Imaginary in Rational Discourse

295

(22)

Mireille Belis

Mythical Production: Aspects of Myth and Technology in Antiquity

317

(12)

Fritz Graf

Bibliography

329

(28)

Index

357

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