Cover of Plato the myth maker

Plato the myth maker

by Luc Brisson

1998 188 pages eng

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 fi…

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