Julian Jaynes

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Books by Julian Jaynes

• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976): mentions 8 books

Quotes from Julian Jaynes's books, and about them

• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind on Iliad: “The Iliad is not imaginative creative literature and hence not a matter for literary discussion.”
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind on The Odyssey: “The Odyssey announces this in its very fifth word, polutropon = much turning.”
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind on Works and Days: “I was about to write that Greek consciousness is nearing completion in the Works and Days.”
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind on Symposium: “in Plato's Symposium "the mutilation of the herms" by the drunken general Alcibiades... is regarded as a serious and important matter.”
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind on The Epic of Gilgamesh: “The Epic of Gilgamesh proper is a series of twelve numbered tablets found in Nineveh among the ruins of the temple library of the god Nabu.”
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind on The Fall of Miletus: “The play was The Fall of Miletus by Phrynicus, describing the sack of that Ionian city by the Persians in 494 B.C.”
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind on Paradise Lost: “Paradise Lost.”
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind on The Greeks and the Irrational: “Dodds in his superb book The Greeks and the Irrational (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951).”

Authors Julian Jaynes's books mention

• Homer (2): The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind mentions Iliad, The Odyssey
• E. R. Dodds (1): The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind mentions The Greeks and the Irrational
• Hesiod (1): The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind mentions Works and Days
• John Milton (1): The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind mentions Paradise Lost
• Phrynichus (1): The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind mentions The Fall of Miletus
• Plato (1): The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind mentions Symposium
• Unknown (1): The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind mentions The Epic of Gilgamesh