The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece

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Zone Books
Foreword by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, translated by Janet Lloyd, author Marcel Detienne
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The acclaimed French classicist Marcel Detienne's first book traces the odyssey of "truth," aletheia, from mytho-religious concept to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. Detienne begins by examining how truth in Greek literature first emerges as an enigma. He then looks at the movement from a religious to a secular thinking about truth in the speech of the sophists and orators. His study culminates with an original interpretation of Parmenides' poem on Being.

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