Preliminary Material / Glenn W. Most, Michael Puett- Copyright Page / Glenn W. Most, Michael Puett -- Introduction // Glenn W. Most, Michael Puett -- Chapter 1 Aided-by-Ink’s Son and Mistery’s Great-Grandson: Wisdom and Oracular Literature in Classical China and Ancient Greece / Tomás Bartoletti -- Chapter 2 Wisdom Literature, Orality, and Textual Histories: Another Look at Heraclitus and the Laozi / Luke Parker -- Chapter 3 Representations of Infancy and Childhood in Laozi and Heraclitus / Jingyi Jenny Zhao -- Chapter 4 Confucian Pollen: A Comparative Reading of the Xunzi Chapter “Great Digest” ( da lüe 大略) / Thomas Crone -- Chapter 5 “The Master Says”: Speech and Silence in the Analects / Andrew Hui -- Chapter 6 Lady Mu of Xu’s Returning to Her Natal Home in “Zaichi” 載馳 (Gallop): A Comparative Perspective of the Early Scholarship of the Shijing 詩經 (Book of Odes) / Leihua Weng -- Chapter 7 In the Wake of Wisdom: The Early Greek Prose Inquiries from a Comparative Perspective / Gaston J. Basile -- Chapter 8 Straight to the Divine: Claims of Self-Divinization in Plato and the Nei-yeh / Fabio Pagani -- Chapter 9 Textualizing Wonders: Ancient Greek Paradoxography in Comparative Perspective / Kenneth W. Yu.

The nine essays in this volume, written by an international interdisciplinary group of younger scholars, explore comparative dimensions of ancient Chinese and Greek literature. They illuminate the development and interrelations of two modes of thought – mythos and logos , or myth and reason – characteristic of certain ancient cultures, including these two, during the second half of the first millennium BCE. They interrogate the meaning and validity of these concepts and of the category of “wisdom literature,” demonstrating that they must be understood critically and that their interrelations are extraordinarily complex and productive. In particular, they explore modes of the rationalizing appropriation of mythic discourses – commentary, edition, philosophy, history – which deconstruct their traditional authority but also secure their survival and continuing significance. Contributors Tomás Bartoletti, Gaston J. Basile, Thomas Crone, Andrew Hui, Fabio Pagani, Luke Parker, Leihua Weng, Kenneth W. Yu and Jingyi Jenny Zhao.

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