Knowing Words : Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical Traditions of China and Greece /
For the Greeks, the craft of Odysseus and the wisdom of Athena were examples of metis, an elusive cast of mind that ranged from wisdom and forethought to craft and cunning. Although it informed many aspects of Greek society, metis was all but absent from the language of Greek philosophy. Invoking In...
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Myth and poetics.
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