Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2008
Abstract
The study introduces multiple ways of relating to different aspects of the world in its spatial and temporal totality in ancient Greece. The mythical vision of the world, as presented by Homer and Hesiod, was radically undermined by the spiritual revolution in Ionia in the 6th century BC that gave rise to the new concepts of physis and oikoumene; however, at the heart of this supposed shift from myth to logos we can hear, in Plato´s work, a voice telling us that with the loss of a myth we lose ourselves.