Greek Myths for a Post-Truth World

Greek Myths for a Post-Truth World

Gabriel, Yiannis

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

10/2024

312

Dura

9781350376571

15 a 20 dias

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Map
Preface

Introduction

1. The Narrative Veil: Truths and Untruths, Facts and Fantasies
2. Iphigenia: Escaping From the Shadows
3. Phaethon: Flying High Before Crashing
4. Oedipus and Thebes: Miasma, Contagion and Cleansing
5. Zeus and Frogs: Craving For Strongman in Times of Uncertainty
6. Odysseus and Nausicaa: Encounters With the Uprooted Other
7. Narcissus and Echo: A Culture of Narcissism or a Culture of Echoes?
8. The Trojan War and the Argonautic Expedition: Heroic Missions, Leadership and Hubris
9. Odysseus and the Sirens: Songs, Noise and Silence

Epilogue: Beyond the Strife of Myth and Reason
Appendix: Plato's Myth of Er

Reading On
Bibliography
Notes
Index
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Jung; Levi-Strauss; fantasy; legend; Parrhasios; Zeuxis; Odysseus; Nausicaa; the Other; migrants; refugee crisis; Phaethon; Icarus; high-flyers; Narcissus; Freud; consumerism; Aesop; fables; leadership; Trojan War; Persian War; management; Oedipus; pandemic; demagogues; Orestes; Iphigenia