| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 313 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-301) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Theoretical issues; 3 Some Presocratics; 4 The sophists and their contemporaries; 5 The Protagoras: Platonic myth in the making; 6 The range of Platonic myth; 7 Plato: myth and the soul; 8 Plato: myth and theory; 9 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of passages cited; General index. |
| Summary |
This book explores the complex relationship between myth and philosophy in writings by Greek intellectuals between the late sixth and mid fourth centuries BC. It shows how Plato and other philosophers used myth to express philosophic problems and traces a tradition of strictly rational and philosophical myth through two centuries. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Plato. |
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Philosophy, Ancient. |
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Myth.
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Myth. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Morgan, Kathryn A. Myth and philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521621801 (DLC) 99049056 (OCoLC)42476683 |
| ISBN |
0511017677 (electronic book) |
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9780511017674 (electronic book) |
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0511035209 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511035203 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780521621809 (hardback) |
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0521621801 (hardback) |
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0511050445 |
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9780511050442 |
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9780511482540 (ebook) |
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051148254X (ebook) |
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