Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration

by Benjamin Folit-Weinberg

Overview

Demonstrates how the invention of extended deductive argumentation by Parmenides depended on his use of poetic road imagery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781316517819
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/09/2022
Series:	Cambridge Classical Studies
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	5.71(w) x 8.78(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

Benjamin Folit-Weinberg is A. G. Leventis Research Fellow at the Institute for Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition at the University of Bristol.

Table of Contents

Part I. Prooimia: 1. Roads: Words and Things; Parmenides the late archaic poet; Part II. Routes: 3. The hodos of Odysseus; 4. The hodos in Odyssey XII; 5. Krisis: Fragment 2; 6. Con(-)sequence: Fragment 8; Part III. Doxai: 7. Mortal Opinions.