The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece
by Marcel Detienne
Category: Philosophy

foreword by Pierre Vidal-Naquet The acclaimed French classicist Marcel Detienne'sfirst book traces the odyssey of "truth," aletheia, from mytho-religious concept to philosophicalthought in archaic Greece. Detienne begins by examining how truth in Greek literature first emergesas an enigma. He then looks at the movement from a religious to a secular thinking about truth inthe speech of the sophists and orators. His study culminates with an original interpretation ofParmenides' poem on Being.