How philosophers saved myths : allegorical interpretation and classical mythology /
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...
| Основен автор: | Brisson, Luc. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English French |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2004.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=260106 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
How philosophers saved myths. |
| Резюме: |
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 number of different interpretive systems throughout the centuries: moral, physical, psychological, political, and even metaphysical. "This wonderful. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xiv, 206 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-199) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226075389 0226075389 |