The discovery of the mind
Subtitle: the Greek origins of European thought
By: Translated by T.G. Rosenmeyer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1953
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Religion; Greek literature; Ancient Philosophy; Intellectual life; History and criticism; Thought and thinking
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Homer's view of man; title: The Olympian Gods; title: The rise of the individual in the early Greek lyric; title: Pindar's hymn to Zeus; title: Myth and reality in Greek tragedy; title: Aristophanes and aesthetic criticism; title: Human knowledge and divine knowledge among the early Greeks; title: The call to virtue : a brief chapter from Greek ethics; title: From myth to logic : the role of the comparison; title: The origin of scientific thought; title: The discovery of Humanitas, and our attitude toward the Greeks; title: Art and play in Callimachus; title: Arcadia : the discovery of a spiritual landscape.