Philosophy and Myth: A Review of Recent Scholarship

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1.  In chronological order, Wilhelm Nestle, Vom Mythos zum Logos: Die Selbstentfaltung des griechischen Denkens von Homer bis auf die Sophistik und Sokrates, 2d ed. (Stuttgart: A. Kröner, 1942); Bruno Snell, The Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European Thought (Oxford: Blackwell, 1953); William Keith Chambers Guthrie, ‘Myth and Reason’: Oration Delivered at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Friday 12, December 1952 (London: LSE, 1953); Vincenzo Cilento, “Mito e poesia nelle Enneadi di Plotino,” Les sources de Plotin, Entretiens de la Fondation Hardt, V (Genève: Fondation Hardt, 1960), 245–310; Jean Pépin, Mythe et Allégorie. Les origins grecques et les contestations judéo-chrétiennes, 2d ed. (Paris: Etudes augustiniennes, 1976); Marcel Detienne, The Creation of Mythology, trans. Margaret Cook (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1986); originally published as L’invention de la mythologie (Paris: Gallimard, 1981).

2.  Lowell Edmunds, Approaches to Greek Myth (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), 1. Detienne, The Creation of Mythology, 82–102.

3.  Luc Brisson, Plato the Myth Maker, trans. and ed. Gérard Naddaf (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998); originally published as Platon, Les mots et les mythes: Comment et pourquoi Platon nomma le mythe? (Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 1994).

4.  Eric Alfred Havelock, Origins of Western Literacy: Four Lectures Delivered at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, March 25, 26, 28, 1974 (Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1976); Preface to Plato (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1963); and The Literate Revolution in Greece and Its Cultural Consequences (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982).

5.  Luc Brisson, How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology, trans. Catherine Tihanyi (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2004); originally published as Introduction à la philosophie du mythe, vol. 1: Sauver les mythes (Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1996).

6.  Brisson, How Philosophers Saved Myths, 11.

7.  Bernard Accardi, et al., comps., Recent Studies in Myths and Literature, 1970–1990: An Annotated Bibliography (New York: Greenwood Press, 1991). Kathryn Morgan, Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

8.  Richard Buxton, ed., From Myth to Reason? Studies in the Development of Greek Thought (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 257.

9.  Dirk Cürsgen, Die Rationalität des Mythischen. Der philosophische Mythos bei Platon und seine Exegese im Neuplatonismus (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 2002).

10.  Catalin Partenie, Plato: Selected Myths (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

11.  Richard Buxton, Gregory Schrempp, and William Hansen, eds., Myth: A New Symposium (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002).