Plato the Myth Maker (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226075198)

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 Maker, 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.

Author: Luc Brisson
ISBN-10: 0226075192
ISBN-13: 9780226075198
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2000
Pages: 244
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.00w x 0.55d