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Plato the Myth Maker - Brisson, Luc, and Naddaf, Gerard (Translated by)
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The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker , Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted description of muthos in light of the latter's Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth with another form of ...

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Plato the Myth Maker 2000, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226075198

2nd edition

Trade paperback

Plato the Myth Maker 1999, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226075181

Hardcover