foreword by Pierre Vidal-Naquet The acclaimed French classicist MarcelDetienne's first book traces the odyssey of "truth," aletheia, from mytho-religiousconcept to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. Detienne begins by examining howtruth in Greek literature first emerges as an enigma. He then looks at the movementfrom a religious to a secular thinking about truth in the speech of the sophists andorators. His study culminates with an original interpretation of Parmenides' poem onBeing.