No Monolithic Theories

‘My own conviction, nevertheless, is that there can be no single and comprehensive theory of myths–except, perhaps, the theory that all such theories

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An Interesting Take on Plato and Socrates

‘Let us go back to Plato for another illustration. The one thing which has caught everyone’s imagination in Plato is the figure of Socrates, the arche

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West on Passages of Disputed Authenticity

In M.L. West’s commentary on the Theogony, he remarks in his introduction to the Typhoeus passage (820-80) that it is ‘one of the sections of the Theo

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