{"product_id":"platonic-myth-and-platonic-writing-robert-zaslavsky-9781532906831","title":"Platonic Myth and Platonic Writing: A Philosophico-Literary Exploration","description":"Dr. Zaslavsky rejects the common notion that what makes a myth in Plato a myth (as opposed to a speech or logos) is its truth value. Therefore, after an analysis of why Plato wrote as he did and a cataloguing and examination of every occurence of mythos and its derivatives in the Platonic corpus, he articulates the new linguistic and philosophical principle that a myth is a genetic or causal synagogic\/synoptic account, in contradistinction to logos as a descriptive or calssificatory diairetic account. He tests this definition successfully through an examination of all those accounts in Plato that are explicitly designated as myths.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Zaslavsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1532906838\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781532906831\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.31d","brand":"Robert Zaslavsky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985579606271,"sku":"9781532906831","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2c10863f-00aa-4e6f-88bb-1bfdec78e1d4.jpg?v=1683278354","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/platonic-myth-and-platonic-writing-robert-zaslavsky-9781532906831","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}