Logoi and Muthoi

William Wians is Professor of Philosophy at Merrimack College. His books include Logos and Muthos: Philosophical Essays in Greek Literature, also published by SUNY Press, and Reading Aristotle: Argument and Exposition (coedited with Ron Polansky).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments From Logos and Muthos to...William Wians 1. Xenia, Hiketeia, and the Homeric Language of Morals: The Origins of Western EthicsKevin Robb 2. The Muses’ Faithful Servant: Moral Knowledge in Homer, Hesiod, and XenophanesWilliam Wians 3. How Philosophy is Rooted in Tradition: Stories Describing the Appearance of Man and Woman in Ancient GreeceLuc Brisson 4. Muthos and Logos on New Year’s Day: Trial and Error in Anaximander’s Seasonal SundialRobert Hahn 5. Tragic Values in Homer and SophoclesLawrence J. Hatab 6. Sketches of Oedipus in Sophocles’s Play about TyrannyMarina Marren 7. Helen and the Divine Defense: Homer, Gorgias, EuripidesRuby Blondell 8. The Hero and the Saint: Sophocles’s Antigone and Plato’s SocratesRoslyn Weiss 9. Myth and Argument in Glaucon’s account of Gyges’s Ring and Adeimantus’s Use of PoetryMarina McCoy 10. Myth Inside the Walls: Er and the Argument of the Republic Pierre Destrée 11. Priam’s Despair and Courage: An Aristotelian Reading of Fear, Hope, and Suffering in Homer’s Iliad Marjolein Oele 12. Poets as Philosophers and Philosophers as Poets: Parmenides, Plato, Lucretius, and WordsworthA. A. Long BibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex

"…this interesting book brings together works that address, from very present-day perspectives, various aspects of the complex relations between muthos and logos; and shed light on areas of confluence and differentiation between these two essential manifestations of Greek culture, manifestations that are more complex than some reductionist proposals would allow." — Aestimatio"…Logoi and Muthoi is to be welcomed as a worthy and important sequel." — Bryn Mawr Classical Review"Rich with anthropological, political, and religious context, these … essays reset the philosophical cornerstones laid by Plato." — CHOICE"This is a stellar effort. The essays are all of extremely high quality and interest. The scholarship is rigorous and the content is innovative. The conception of the book is highly original, well-grounded, and well-thought-out. William Wians's work as a scholar and as an editor has been consistently first-rate, and with this volume he has surpassed himself." — Rose M. Cherubin, George Mason University