Homer and Hesiod, Myth and Philosophy
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0761817220
ISBN-13
9780761817222
Publisher
University Press of America
Imprint
University Press of America
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 18th, 2000
Print length
392 Pages
Weight
617 grams
Dimensions
23.70 x 15.70 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
Plays, playscripts
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Homer and Hesiod, Myth and Philosophy is a study of the nature and function of the poetry of Homer and Hesiod when their work is considered in historical context as the initial significant developments of poetry as a distinctive voice for truth beyond religion and myth. To understand their innovations properly, this work begins with the presentation of an account of the nature of religion and myth and in particular of the disclosure of truth achieved in myth. Then it takes up the Homeric and Hesiodic innovations which transform the bardic poetry that was heritage from at least Mycenaean times and that make the inspired poet an educative voice for truth. After giving an account of the four major poems in which this transformation is embodied: Illiad and Odyssey, Theogony and Works and Days, the work concludes with a discussion of how these creations shaped the matrix within which philosophy arose. In this way it points to why the distinctive realization of philosophy in Greece (as contrasted with that in China and India) involved what the Platonic Socrates can speak of as "an ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy."
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