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In Theorizing Myth, Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of "myth" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of stories, usually those told by others. He begins by showing that mythos yielded to logos not as part of a (mythic) "Greek miracle," but as part... read more
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Heroic accounts of progress and the march of civilization, when narrating the beloved Greek Miracle, regularly grant prominent place to the transformation in speech and thought that led from the mythos of Homer and Hesiod to the logos of Heraclitus and Plato, a transformation associated with the move from symbolic to rational discourse, anthropomorphism to abstraction, and religion to philosophy.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Bruce Lincoln (Author)
Awards edit
- AAR Book Award (2000: Analytical-Descriptive Studies)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 291.13072
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Mythology › Folklore
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Religious Studies › Comparative Religion
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Folklore & Mythology
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Fairy Tales
- Books › Reference › Words & Language
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