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.
- ISBN10 094229985X
- ISBN13 9780942299854
- Publish Date 30 September 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Zone Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 232
- Language English
- URL http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780942299854