The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece

The acclaimed French classicist Marcel Detienne's first book traces the odyssey of truth, aletheia, from mytho-religious 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.

• Author
• Marcel Detienne

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 232

• Publisher
• Zone Books

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780942299861

• Genres
• history, philosophy, mythology, anthropology, classics

• Release date
• 1999