Translation of: Les Grecs ont-ils cru à leurs mythes?
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-153) and index
When Historical Truth Was Tradition and Vulgate -- The Plurality and Analogy of True Words -- The Social Distribution of Knowledge and the Modalities of Belief -- Social Diversity of Beliefs and Mental Balkanization -- Behind This Sociology an Implicit Program of Truth -- Restoring Etiological Truth to Myth -- Myth and Rhetorical Truth -- Pausanias Entrapped -- Forger's Truth, Philologist's Truth -- The Need to Choose between Culture and Belief in a Truth -- Notes -- Index