We think of a myth as a fictional story, and Plato was the first to
use the term "muthos" in that sense. But Plato also used "muthos"
to describe the practice of making and telling myths, the oral
transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective
memory. In the first part of this text, Luc Brisson reconstructs
Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of "muthos" in
light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. The second part of the
book contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form
of speech which he believed was far superior: the "logos" of
philosophy. Brisson's work is part lexical, part philosophical, and
part ethnological, and Gerard Naddaf's substantial introduction
shows the originality and importance both of Brisson's method and
of Plato's analysis in the context of contemporary debates over the
origin and evolution of the oral tradition.
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