The discovery of the mind : the Greek origins of European thought, by Bruno Snell ; translated by T.G. Rosenmeyer

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The discovery of the mind : the Greek origins of European thought, by Bruno Snell ; translated by T.G. Rosenmeyer

Title remainder

the Greek origins of European thought

Statement of responsibility

by Bruno Snell ; translated by T.G. Rosenmeyer

Instantiates

• The discovery of the mind : the Greek origins of European thought

Publication

• Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1953

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-323) and index

Contents

Homer's view of man -- The Olympian Gods -- The rise of the individual in the early Greek lyric -- Pindar's hymn to Zeus -- Myth and reality in Greek tragedy -- Aristophanes and aesthetic criticism -- Human knowledge and divine knowledge among the early Greeks -- The call to virtue : a brief chapter from Greek ethics -- From myth to logic : the role of the comparison -- The origin of scientific thought -- The discovery of Humanitas, and our attitude toward the Greeks -- Art and play in Callimachus -- Arcadia : the discovery of a spiritual landscape

Dimensions

23 cm.

Extent

xii, 323 p.

Lccn

a 53005261

Note

• Spec. Coll. Sontag copy is part of a collection (Collection 892). To page this item, use the collection record; to find the collection record, search the title: Books from the library of Susan Sontag. Item is in box 241.
• Spec. Coll. Sontag copy: Dust jacket. Orange brown cloth over boards, spine stamped in gilt. Paper markers laid in, with notes and marginalia by Sontag. 2 leaves of holographic notes laid in. "Wrack and crumbling" by H.R.Trevor-Roper (New Statesmen; Apr. 12 1958), 1 leaf, laid in.

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ill.

Record ID

6399605

System control number

• (OCoLC)02056876
• ucoclc2056876