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OverviewIn Logoi and Muthoi, William Wians builds on his earlier volume Logos and Muthos, highlighting the richness and complexity of these terms that were once set firmly in opposition to one another as reason versus myth or rationality versus irrationality. It was once common to think of intellectual history representing a straightforward progression from mythology to rationality. These volumes, however, demonstrate the value of taking the two together, opening up and analyzing a range of interactions, reactions, tensions, and ambiguities arising between literary and philosophical forms of discourse, including philosophical themes in works not ordinarily considered in the canon of Greek philosophical texts. This new volume considers such topics as the pre-philosophical origins of Anaximander's calendar, the philosophical significance of public performance and claims of poetic inspiration, and the complex role of mythic figures (including perhaps Socrates) in Plato. Taken together, the essays offer new approaches to familiar texts and open up new possibilities for understanding the roles and relationships between muthos and logos in ancient Greek thought. Full Product DetailsAuthor: William WiansPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438474885ISBN 10: 1438474881 Pages: 378 Publication Date: 02 January 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments From Logos and Muthos to . . . William Wians 1. Xenia, Hiketeia, and the Homeric Language of Morals: The Origins of Western Ethics Kevin Robb 2. The Muses’ Faithful Servant: Moral Knowledge in Homer, Hesiod, and Xenophanes William Wians 3. How Philosophy is Rooted in Tradition: Stories Describing the Appearance of Man and Woman in Ancient Greece Luc Brisson 4. Muthos and Logos on New Year’s Day: Trial and Error in Anaximander’s Seasonal Sundial Robert Hahn 5. Tragic Values in Homer and Sophocles Lawrence J. Hatab 6. Sketches of Oedipus in Sophocles’s Play about Tyranny Marina Marren 7. Helen and the Divine Defense: Homer, Gorgias, Euripides Ruby Blondell 8. The Hero and the Saint: Sophocles’s Antigone and Plato’s Socrates Roslyn Weiss 9. Myth and Argument in Glaucon’s account of Gyges’s Ring and Adeimantus’s Use of Poetry Marina McCoy 10. Myth Inside the Walls: Er and the Argument of the Republic Pierre Destrée 11. Priam’s Despair and Courage: An Aristotelian Reading of Fear, Hope, and Suffering in Homer’s Iliad Marjolein Oele 12. Poets as Philosophers and Philosophers as Poets: Parmenides, Plato, Lucretius, and Wordsworth A. A. Long Bibliography About the Contributors IndexReviews...this interesting book brings together works that address, from very present-day perspectives, various aspects of the complex relations between muthos and logos; and shed light on areas of confluence and differentiation between these two essential manifestations of Greek culture, manifestations that are more complex than some reductionist proposals would allow. - Aestimatio ...Logoi and Muthoi is to be welcomed as a worthy and important sequel. - Bryn Mawr Classical Review Rich with anthropological, political, and religious context, these ... essays reset the philosophical cornerstones laid by Plato. - CHOICE This is a stellar effort. The essays are all of extremely high quality and interest. The scholarship is rigorous and the content is innovative. The conception of the book is highly original, well-grounded, and well-thought-out. William Wians's work as a scholar and as an editor has been consistently first-rate, and with this volume he has surpassed himself. - Rose M. Cherubin, George Mason University Rich with anthropological, political, and religious context, these ... essays reset the philosophical cornerstones laid by Plato. - CHOICE This is a stellar effort. The essays are all of extremely high quality and interest. The scholarship is rigorous and the content is innovative. The conception of the book is highly original, well-grounded, and well-thought-out. William Wians's work as a scholar and as an editor has been consistently first-rate, and with this volume he has surpassed himself. - Rose M. Cherubin, George Mason University Author InformationWilliam Wians is Professor of Philosophy at Merrimack College. His books include Logos and Muthos: Philosophical Essays in Greek Literature, also published by SUNY Press, and Reading Aristotle: Argument and Exposition (coedited with Ron Polansky). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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