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Tables of Contents for From Myth to Reason
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Notes on the Contributors
ix
Abbreviations
xiii
Introduction
Richard Buxton
1
24
I HISTORY OF A POLARITY
From Logos to Mythos
Glenn W. Most
25
26
II MYTH AND REASON IN PRACTICE
Re-evaluating Gernet: Value and Greek Myth
Sitta von Reden
51
20
Rationalization and Disenchantment in Ancient Greece: Max Weber among the Pythagoreans and Orphics?
Jan Bremmer
71
16
III MYTHICAL LOGIC
The Logic of Cosmogony
Walter Burkert
87
20
Myth, Memory, and the Chorus: `Tragic Rationality'
John Gould
107
12
IV POLARITIES DISSOLVED
The Rhetoric of Muthos and Logos: Forms of Figurative Discourse
Claude Calame
119
26
Mythology: Reflections from a Chinese Perspective
Geoffrey Lloyd
145
24
V MYTH AND/OR/INTO HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY
Euenius the Negligent Nightwatchman (Herodotus 9. 92-6)
Alan Griffiths
169
14
`Myth into Logos': The Case of Croesus, or the Historian at Work
Francois Hartog
183
14
Monsters in Greek Ethnography and Society in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BCE
Dominique Lenfant
197
18
Rationalizing Myth: Methods and Motives in Palaephatus
Jacob Stern
215
8
Demythologizing the Past, Mythicizing the Present: Myth, History, and the Supernatural at the Dawn of the Hellenistic Period
Albert Henrichs
223
28
VI PHILOSOPHERS' MYTHS
What is a Muthos for Plato?
Penelope Murray
251
12
Myth, History, and Dialectic in Plato's Republic and Timaeus-Critias
Christopher Rowe
263
16
Myth and Logos in Aristotle
Thomas K. Johansen
279
16
VII MYTH, REASON, AND TECHNIQUES
The Use of Purple in Cooking, Medicine, and Magic: An Example of Interference by the Imaginary in Rational Discourse
Mireille Belis
295
22
Mythical Production: Aspects of Myth and Technology in Antiquity
Fritz Graf
317
12
Bibliography
329
28
Index
357
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