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Author Veyne, Paul, 1930-

Title Did the Greeks believe in their myths? : an essay on the constitutive imagination / Paul Veyne ; translated by Paula Wissing
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988

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Description xii, 161 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Translator's Note -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. When Historical Truth Was Tradition and Vulgate -- 2. The Plurality and Analogy of True Words -- 3. The Social Distribution of Knowledge and the Modalities of Belief -- 4. Social Diversity of Beliefs and Mental Balkanization -- 5. Behind This Sociology an Implicit Program of Truth -- 6. Restoring Etiological Truth to Myth -- 7. Myth and Rhetorical Truth -- 8. Pausanias Entrapped -- 9. Forger's Truth, Philologist's Truth -- 10. The Need to Choose between Culture and Belief in a Truth -- Notes -- Index
Analysis Ancient Greek myths Attitudes of Ancient Greeks
Greek myths Beliefs of Greeks, ancient period
Notes Includes index
Translation of: Les Grecs ont-ils cru à leurs mythes?
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 131-153
Subject Mythology, Greek.
LC no. 87025536
ISBN 0226854337
0226854345 (paperback)
Other Titles Grecs ont-ils cru à leurs mythes? English