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¿Hay un mito platónico?

In opposition to the usual interpretation this paper maintains that the opposition between mythos (story) and logos (rational account) was not created by Plato, but by the sophists. Plato tried to overcome the contradiction by using both as synonyms in several passages. He considered the old transmitted stories had a true nucleus he tried to discover using hermeneutics. The myth of the Statesman about the golden age under Cronos is taken as sample of his procedure.