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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...

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Основен автор: Brisson, Luc.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
French
Публикувано: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Предмети:
Mythology, Classical.
Allegory.
Philosophy > History.
Philosophy.
Mythe > Philosophie.
Mythe > Histoire.
Mythologie.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Gaia & Earth Energies.
Mythen.
Klassieke oudheid.
Allegorese.
Receptie.
Renaissance.
Electronic books.
History.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: How philosophers saved myths.
Съдържание:
  • Muthos and philosophia
  • Plato's attitude toward myth
  • Aristotle and the beginnings of allegorical exegesis
  • Stoics, Epicureans, and the New Academy
  • Pythagoreanism and Platonism
  • The Neoplatonic school of Athens
  • Byzantium and the pagan myths
  • The Western Middle Ages
  • The Renaissance.

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