The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece by Marcel Detienne (Paperback - Zone Books)

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The acclaimed French classicist Marcel Detienne's first book traces the odyssey of "truth, " aletheia, from mythoreligious concept to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. Detienne begins by examining how truth in Greek literature first emerges as an enigma. He then looks at the movement from a religious to a secular thinking about truth in the speech of the sophists and orators. His study culminates with an original interpretation of Parmenides' poem on Being.