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ISBN: 9780520223912 - Sexual Ambivalence Sexual Ambivalence
Luc Brisson

ISBN10: 0520223918  ISBN13: 9780520223912
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Mar 2002
Brisson relates the extant ancient narratives about two-sexed creatures, and discusses the significant roles they played in myth and philosophy. This fascinating book collects and translates most of the extant written Graeco-Roman material on... More

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ISBN: 9780226075181 - Plato the Myth Maker Plato the Myth Maker
Luc Brisson

ISBN10: 0226075184  ISBN13: 9780226075181
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 10 May 1999
We think of myth as a fictional story, and Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. But Plato also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its... More

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ISBN: 9780226075358 - How Philosophers Saved Myths How Philosophers Saved Myths
Luc Brisson

ISBN10: 0226075354  ISBN13: 9780226075358
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 07 Dec 2004
This study explains how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. Luc Brisson argues that, ironically, philosophy was responsible for saving myth from historical annihilation. Although philosophy was... More

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ISBN: 9780226075372 - How Philosophers Saved Myths How Philosophers Saved Myths
Luc Brisson

ISBN10: 0226075370  ISBN13: 9780226075372
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 Jun 2008
In this concise but wide-ranging study, Luc Brisson describes how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. He argues that philosophy was responsible for saving myth from historical annihilation. More

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ISBN: 9780860784531 - Orphee et l'Orphisme dans l'Antiquite Greco-Romaine Orphee et l'Orphisme dans l'Antiquite Greco-Romaine
Luc Brisson

ISBN10: 0860784533  ISBN13: 9780860784531
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group Variorum
Edition: illustrated edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 09 Mar 1995
The main purpose of this book is to provide a contextualization of the Orphic fragments cited by Medio-Platonists and Neo-Platonists, Proclus, Damascius and Olympiodorus. The author concludes that the "Rhapsodies" were composed from an earlier... More

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ISBN: 9780226075198 - Plato the Myth Maker Plato the Myth Maker
Luc Brisson Gerard Naddaf

ISBN10: 0226075192  ISBN13: 9780226075198
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Jan 2001
The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term "muthos" in that sense. He also used "muthos" to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all... More

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ISBN: 9780520231481 - Sexual Ambivalence Sexual Ambivalence
Luc Brisson

ISBN10: 0520231481  ISBN13: 9780520231481
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 28 Mar 2002
Brisson relates the extant ancient narratives about two-sexed creatures, and discusses the significant roles they played in myth and philosophy. This fascinating book collects and translates most of the extant written Graeco-Roman material on... More

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ISBN: 9780791426920 - Inventing the Universe Inventing the Universe
Luc Brisson, Walter Meyerstein

ISBN10: 0791426920  ISBN13: 9780791426920
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jul 1995

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ISBN: 9780791426913 - Inventing the Universe Inventing the Universe
Luc Brisson, Walter Meyerstein

ISBN10: 0791426912  ISBN13: 9780791426913
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Jul 1995
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Problem of Scientific Knowledge 1Pt. I The Model of the Universe in the Timaeus 17Pt. II Contemporary Big Bang Cosmology 67Pt. III What Knowledge is Conveyed by Science? 149 Indices 187 More