Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?: An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination
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A groundbreaking, innovative exploration of what the ancient Greeks really believed
Did the Greeks believe in their mythology? This question implies other difficult ones concerning the meaning of belief. While knowing that Theseus never slew the Minotaur, the Greeks were still capable of believing in the existence of Theseus, of crafting a genealogy for him and assigning him a place in history. This apparently contradictory process, the application of reason to myth, prompts legendary archae...


