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The embroidered armour : the Greeks and the invisible / Roberto Peregalli ; [translated by Shaun Whiteside] ; drawings by Pierre Le-Tan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peregalli, Roberto, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Mysteries, Religious--Greece--History.
- Mysteries, Religious.
- Philosophy--History.
- Philosophy.
- History.
- Greece.
- Physical Description:
- 165 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pushkin, 2013.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Italian.
- Summary:
- The Embroidered Armour examines the Greek Mysteries, mythology and legends that heralded a revolution in thinking between the time of Homer and Plato and which gave birth to the Western cultural tradition. In investigating ancient Greek concepts concerning the relationship between seeing and knowing, Roberto Peregalli presents an eloquent demonstration of the modernity of ancient Greek wisdom. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The Ambiguities of The Visible 21
- The Risk of Knowledge 37
- The Deception of the Sphinx 57
- The Invisible Connection 71
- The Gift of Mnemosyne 81
- The Charlatans of Heaven 95
- The Paradox of Perception 107
- The Double Vision 119
- Heracles at the Crossroads 131
- Postface 139.
- ISBN:
- 9781906548339
- 1906548331
- OCLC:
- 651076846
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