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The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece

By Marcel Detienne, Pierre Vidal-Naquet (Foreword by), Janet Lloyd (Translator)
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By Marcel Detienne, Pierre Vidal-Naquet (Foreword by), Janet Lloyd (Translator)
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The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece traces the odyssey of “truth,” Aletheia, from mythoreligious to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. Marcel Detienne’s starting point is a simple observation: In archaic Greece, three figures — the diviner, the bard, and the king — all share the privilege of dispensing truth by virtue of the religious power of divine memory, which provides them with knowledge, both oracular and inspired, of the present, past, and future. Beginning with this definit...

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