Description
The acclaimed French classicist Marcel Detienne’s first book traces the odyssey of “fact,” aletheia, from mytho-spiritual concept to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. Detienne starts by examining how fact in Greek literature first emerges as an enigma. He then looks on the movement from a non secular to an earthly fascinated about fact within the speech of the sophists and orators. His examine culminates with an authentic interpretation of Parmenides’ poem on Being.