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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
1
24
I HISTORY OF A POLARITY
From Logos to Mythos
25
26
II MYTH AND REASON IN PRACTICE
Re-evaluating Gernet: Value and Greek Myth
51
20
Rationalization and Disenchantment in Ancient Greece: Max Weber among the Pythagoreans and Orphics?
71
16
III MYTHICAL LOGIC
The Logic of Cosmogony
87
20
Myth, Memory, and the Chorus: `Tragic Rationality'
107
12
IV POLARITIES DISSOLVED
The Rhetoric of Muthos and Logos: Forms of Figurative Discourse
119
26
Mythology: Reflections from a Chinese Perspective
145
24
V MYTH AND/OR/INTO HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY
Euenius the Negligent Nightwatchman (Herodotus 9. 92-6)
169
14
`Myth into Logos': The Case of Croesus, or the Historian at Work
183
14
Monsters in Greek Ethnography and Society in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BCE
197
18
Rationalizing Myth: Methods and Motives in Palaephatus
215
8
Demythologizing the Past, Mythicizing the Present: Myth, History, and the Supernatural at the Dawn of the Hellenistic Period
223
28
VI PHILOSOPHERS' MYTHS
What is a Muthos for Plato?
251
12
Myth, History, and Dialectic in Plato's Republic and Timaeus-Critias
263
16
Myth and Logos in Aristotle
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
295
22
Mythical Production: Aspects of Myth and Technology in Antiquity
317
12
Bibliography
329
28
Index
357