Needham’s review of Paul Veyne’s ‘Did the Greeks believe in their myths?’

By Jonathan Mair in Anthropology on Mon, 17 Aug 2015

This post is a continuation of my thoughts in my previous post [Obsolete link removed. Original url: ../2015-08-17-rodney-needham-and-paul-veyne-on-belief/]… Now to Needham’s review of Veyne’s book. The review is short, and much is taken up with...

Rodney Needham and Paul Veyne on religious belief

By Jonathan Mair in Anthropology on Mon, 17 Aug 2015

I recently came across a review [Obsolete link removed. Original url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2804131] by Rodney Needham of Paul Veyne’s Did the Greeks believe in their myths? I was quite intrigued by this as these two authors are...