The discovery of the mind in Greek philosophy and literature
By: Bruno Snell.
Publisher: Dover
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Philosophy, Ancient.; Greek literature -- History and criticism.; Thought and thinking.; Greece -- Intellectual life.; Greece -- Religion.
Work titles: Entdeckung des Geistes.
Description: In this immensely erudite book, German classicist Bruno Snell traces the establishment of a rational view of the nature of man as evidenced in the literature of the Greeks- in the creations of epic and lyric poetry, and in the drama. Here are the crucial stages in the intellectual evolution of the Greek world: the Homeric world view, the rise of the individual in the early Greek lyric, myth and reality in Greek tragedy, Greek ethics, the origin of scientific thought, and Arcadia.
Notes: Reprint of the edition originally published, New York: Harper, 1960.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translation of 'Die Entdeckung des Geistes'.