The discovery of the mind : the Greek origins of European thought / Bruno Snell ; translated by T.G. Rosenmeyer ; cover design by Ronald Clyne.

By: Snell, Bruno, 1896-1986 [author.]Contributor(s): Rosenmeyer, Thomas G [translator.] | Clyne, Ronald [cover designer.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: Harper torchbooksAcademy library ; TB 1018.New York, N.Y. : Harper, 1960Edition: 1st Harper torchbook edition: 1960Description: xiv, 322 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeUniform titles: Entdeckung des Geistes. English. Subject(s): Philosophy, Ancient | Greek literature -- History and criticism | Thought and thinking | Greece -- Intellectual life | Greece -- ReligionLOC classification: B181 .S513 1960
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 out attitude towards the Greeks -- Art and play in Callimachus -- Arcadia : the discovery of a spiritual landscape.
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"The present translation is based on the second edition of Die Entdeckung des Geistes (Claassen und Goverts, Hamberg, 1948)."--P. vi.

Reprint. Originally publsihed: Harvard University Press, 1953.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-323) and index.

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 out attitude towards the Greeks -- Art and play in Callimachus -- Arcadia : the discovery of a spiritual landscape.