Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?: An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination

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"[Veyne's] present book has some kinship with his sprightly theoretical work Comment on ecrit l'histoire; and he declares that its aim was to provoke reflection on the way our conception of truth is built up and changes over the centuries. . . . The style is brilliant and exhilarating."—Jasper Griffin, Times Literary Supplement

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Overview

"[Veyne's] present book has some kinship with his sprightly theoretical work Comment on ecrit l'histoire; and he declares that its aim was to provoke reflection on the way our conception of truth is built up and changes over the centuries. . . . The style is brilliant and exhilarating."—Jasper Griffin, Times Literary Supplement

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  • ISBN-13: 9780226854342
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date: 6/15/1988
  • Edition description: 1
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 161
  • Sales rank: 809,868
  • Product dimensions: 5.71 (w) x 8.65 (h) x 0.67 (d)

Table of Contents

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

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