Myth, History, and Dialectic in Plato’s Republic and Timaeus-Critias
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23151384 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Rowe (0000-0001-6624-8197, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Pages | 279-291 |
| Publication date | 1999-07-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | From myth to reason? (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780198152347.003.0015 |
| OpenAlex | W4388372107 |
| ISBN | 9780198152347 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The purpose of this paper is to explore, with the help of one central example, some aspects of the interplay between the notions of muthos, centred on the sense of the ‘fictional’, and logos, or whatever term might be used to denote the opposed category of the non-fictional, in Plato. My example is one that Penelope Murray also refers to in her contribution to the present volume: the construction of the ideal city of the Republic, and what seemsto be represented as the same city (exemplified, according to Critias, by a primitive Athens), in the Timaeus-Critias.
Art · Dialectic · Epistemology · Humanities · Ideal (ethics) · Literature · Logos Bible Software · Mythology · The Republic · Theology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2023 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |