Plato the Myth Maker

by Luc Brisson

Book Overview

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 that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted description of muthos in light of the latter's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226075184
• ISBN13: 9780226075181
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"