Myth and Thought among the Greeks - Table of Contents

June 2006
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Myth and Thought among the Greeks
Jean-Pierre Vernant
Translated by Janet Lloyd and Jeff Fort

	Preface to the 1985 Edition	9

	Introduction	13

	Part One: Myth Structures

I.	Hesiod's Myth of the Races: An Essay in Structural Analysis	25

II.	Hesiod's Myth of the Races: A Reassessment	53

III.	Structural Method and the Myth of the Races	89

	Part Two: Mythical Aspects of Memory and Time

IV.	Mythic Aspects of Memory	115

V.	The River Ameles and the Melete Thanatou	139

	Part Three: The Organization of Space

VI.	Hestia-Hermes: The Religious Expression of Space and Movement in Ancient Greece	157

VII.	Geometry and Spherical Astronomy in Early Greek Cosmology	197

VIII.	Geometric Structure and Political Ideas in the Cosmology of Anaximander	213

IX.	Space and Political Organization in Ancient Greece	235

	Part Four: Work and Technological Thought

X.	Prometheus and the Technological Function	263

XI.	Work and Nature in Ancient Greece	275

XII.	Some Psychological Aspects of Work in Ancient Greece	293

XIII.	Some Remarks on the Forms and Limitations of Technological Thought among the Greeks	299

	Part Five: The Psychological Category of the Double

XIV.	The Figuration of the Invisible and the Psychological Category of the Double: The Kolossos	321

XV.	From the "Presentification" of the Invisible to the Imitation of Appearance	333

	Part Six: Personal Identity and Religion

XVI.	Some Aspects of Personal Identity in Greek Religion	353

	Part Seven: From Myth to Reason

XVII.	The Formation of Positivist Thought in Archaic Greece	371

XVIII	The Origins of Philosophy	399

	Notes	409

	Index	497

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