Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?: An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination"[Veyne's] present book has some kinship with his sprightly theoretical work Comment on ecrit l'histoire; and he declares that its aim was to provoke reflection on the way our conception of truth is built up and changes over the centuries. . . . The style is brilliant and exhilarating."—Jasper Griffin, Times Literary Supplement |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
When Historical Truth Was Tradition and Vulgate | 5 |
The Plurality and Analogy of True Worlds | 17 |
The Social Distribution of Knowledge and the Modalities of Belief | 27 |
Social Diversity of Beliefs and Mental Balkanization | 41 |
Behind This Sociology an Implicit Program of Truth | 59 |
Restoring Etiological Truth to Myth | 71 |
Common terms and phrases
according Aeneas allegory ancient historians Arcadians Aristotle Artemidorus Asius attitude authentic believe Béroul called Centaurs centuries Chrysippus Cicero cite contradictions criticism of myth culture Diodorus divine Euhemerus Eusebius everything example exist explain eyes fables fact faith false fiction forger Galen genealogies gods Greece Greeks Hellenes Heracles Herodotus heroes heroic Hesiod historiography Homer human idea ideology imaginary imagination interests invented Isocrates king knowledge Kühn learned legendary legends less literature Livy longer marvelous means Minos modalities of belief modern mythical mythology naïve natural origins palace Palaephatus Paris Pausanias Pelasgus philologist philosophers Philostratus Pindar Plato plurality Plutarch poet poetry political Polybius polygon problem program of truth question readers reality reason reflect religion rhetoric Roman Rome Romulus social sources speak Stoics story Strabo tell Theseus Thucydides tradition Trojan Trojan War true word writes Xenophanes Zeus