Did The Greeks Believe In Their Myths? by Paul Veyne
An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination
An exploration of how ancient Greeks related to myth, arguing they neither simply believed nor disbelieved but adopted layered, context-dependent attitudes toward stories that served civic, religious, and historical functions. It shows how allegory, skepticism, and ritual could coexist, and proposes that shared imagination constitutes social reality, drawing revealing parallels with modern ideologies and collective narratives.
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- 1983
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- Alternate Titles
- - Les Grecs ont-ils cru à leurs mythes?
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