LEADER 02535oam 2200625 c 450 001 9910961223803321 005 20260102090118.0 010 $a9783838274256 010 $a3838274253 024 3 $a9783838274256 035 $a(CKB)4100000011398666 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6335856 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6335856 035 $a(OCoLC)1159841545 035 $a(PPN)254834124 035 $a(ibidem)9783838274256 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011398666 100 $a20260102d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAllegory in Early Greek Philosophy /$fJennifer Lobo Meeks, Alexander Gungov, Donald Verene 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aHannover$cibidem$d2020 215 $a1 online resource (125 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aStudies in Historical Philosophy$v3 311 08$a9783838214252 311 08$a3838214250 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aAllegory in Early Greek Philosophy examines the role that allegory plays in Greek thought, particularly in the transition from the mythic tradition of the archaic poets to the philosophical traditions of the Presocratics and Plato. It explores how a mode of speech that "says one thing, but means another" is integral to philosophy, which otherwise seeks to achieve clarity and precision in its discourse. By providing the early Greek thinkers with a way of defending and appropriating the poetic wisdom of their predecessors, allegory enables philosophy to locate and recover its own origins in the mythic tradition. Allegory allows philosophy simultaneously to move beyond mythos and express the whole in terms of logos, a rational account in which reality is represented in a more abstract and universal way than myth allows. 606 $aAllegory 606 $aAllegorie 606 $aPhilosophie 606 $aPhilosophy 606 $aGreek 606 $aGriechisch 615 4$aAllegory 615 4$aAllegorie 615 4$aPhilosophie 615 4$aPhilosophy 615 4$aGreek 615 4$aGriechisch 676 $a100 700 $aLobo Meeks$b Jennifer$4aut$01688314 702 $aGungov$b Alexander$4edt 702 $aVerene$b Donald$4edt 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910961223803321 996 $aAllegory in early Greek philosophy$94062445 997 $aUNINA