{"product_id":"2026200014689-secondhand-did-the-greeks-believe-in-their-myths-an-essay-on-the-constitutive-imagination","title":"Did The Greeks Believe In Their Myths?: An Essay On The Constitutive Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it truly mean to believe — and can a society hold contradictory truths simultaneously without rupture? In Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?, the distinguished French historian Paul Veyne confronts one of antiquity's most beguiling paradoxes: the ancient Greeks simultaneously treated their myths as sacred cultural truth and acknowledged them as poetic fiction, navigating this contradiction with a sophistication that challenges our most fundamental assumptions about belief, truth, and the imagination. Translated by Paula Wissing, this landmark work of historical epistemology argues that truth is not a singular, universal standard but a plurality of truth regimes — socially constructed frameworks that determine what a given culture accepts as real.\n\nVeyne's brilliance lies in his refusal to patronise the Greeks as credulous primitives; instead, he presents them as acutely self-aware participants in a constitutive imagination that actively shaped their social and political world. Drawing on a vast command of classical sources and modern philosophy, his prose moves with rare elegance between the rigorously analytical and the compellingly narrative, dismantling centuries of historiographical assumptions with quiet precision. A work of profound intellectual ambition, it leaves the reader asking an altogether more unsettling question: what are the myths *we* believe in today?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49210285031643,"sku":"2026200014689-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/7289aeb4-4d70-4947-a431-4e6a8c78dcd7.png?v=1788268852","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014689-secondhand-did-the-greeks-believe-in-their-myths-an-essay-on-the-constitutive-imagination","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}