How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology
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In this concise but wide-ranging study, Luc Brisson describes how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. He argues that philosophy was responsible for saving myth from historical annihilation. Although philosophy was initially critical of myth, mythology was progressively reincorporated into philosophy through allegory. Brisson reveals how philosophers employed allegory and how it enabled myth to take on a...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226075370
ISBN13:9780226075372
Release Date:June 2008
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:221 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"
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