Selected Myths

Name: Selected Myths
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ISBN: 9780199552559

ISBN-10: 019955255X

ISBN-13: 9780199552559

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Authors: Plato, Catalin Partenie

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'Once upon a time there were just the gods; mortal beings did not yet exist.'We are used to thinking of myths as stories, and modern myths as made up and fictitious. For the ancient Greeks, however, a myth was a story that unveiled reality, and for Plato, myth-maker as well as myth-teller, a myth could tell us something important about ourselves and our world. The ultimate purpose of Plato's myths is to help us live a better life, and to teach philosophical truths in a form we can most easily understand. This volume brings together ten of the most celebrated Platonicmyths, from eight of Plato's dialogues ranging from the early Protagoras and Gorgias to the late Timaeus and Critias. They…

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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 2/26/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.330

Catalin Partenie is a Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the Universit_ du Qu_bec, Montr_al. He is the editor of Plato: Selected Myths (2004) and co-editor (with Tom Rockmore) of Heidegger and Plato (2005).