From myth to reason? : studies in the development of Greek thought / edited by Richard Buxton.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-355) and index.

From logos to mythos / Glenn W. Most -- Re-evaluating Gernet : value and Greek myth / Sitta von Reden -- Rationalization and disenchantment in ancient Greece : Max Weber among the Pythagoreans and Orphics? / Jan Bremmer -- The logic of cosmogony / Walter Burkert -- Myth, memory, and the chorus : 'tragic rationality' / John Gould -- The rhetoric of Muthos and Logos : forms of figurative discourse / Claude Calame -- Mythology : reflections from a Chinese perspective / Geoffrey Lloyd -- Euenius the negligent nightwatchman (Herodotus 9. 92-6) / Alan Griffiths -- 'Myth into Logos' : the case of Croesus, or the historian at work / François Hartog -- Monsters in Greek ethnography and society in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE / Dominique Lenfant -- Rationalizing myth : methods and motives in Palaephatus / Jacob Stern -- Demythologizing the past, mythicizing the present : myth, history, and the supernatural at the dawn of the Hellenistic period / Albert Henrichs -- What is a Muthos for Plato? / Penelope Murray -- Myth, history, and dialectic in Plato's Republic and Timaeus-Critias / Christopher Rowe -- Myth and Logos in Aristotle / Thomas K. Johansen -- The use of purple in cooking, medicine, and magic : an example of interference by the imaginary in rational discourse / Mireille Bélis -- Mythical production : aspects of myth and technology in antiquity / Fritz Graf.

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"It has often been asserted that Greek civilization underwent a transition from myth to reason. But what does such an assertion mean? And how much truth is there in it? 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. This wide-ranging but coherent exploration of a theme should prove of value to scholars and graduate students in the fields of Hellenic studies, ancient philosophy, ancient history, anthropology, and sociology."--Jacket.

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