Beschreibung:
What is Metis? Cunning shrewdness J.-P Vernant and M. Detienne have delimited a new field of inquiry for which the operative models are those of circling, doubling back and interconnecting. In order to reconstruct or construct the configuration of Métis, it is necessary to traverse the cultural world of the Greeks in its entirety, to enter into a series of processes themselves full of Metis : techniques of hunting and fishing, myths of kingship, orphic cosmogonies. Metis has been the victim of a twofold silence : the Greeks themselves or to be more exact, the Greek philosophers held this form of intelligence to be of less value than that which presented itself as veritable knowledge or a systematic search for truth; later, Hellenists, faced with the texts, preferred the reading "the Greek miracle" to "the cunning of Metis".