How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology (Hardback)
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Short Description for How Philosophers Saved Myths Describes how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. This study 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.
Full description- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Published: 07 December 2004
- Format: Hardback 224 pages
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- Categories: Folklore, Myths & Legends | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | History Of Western Philosophy
- ISBN 13: 9780226075358 ISBN 10: 0226075354
- Sales rank: 1,052,970
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Full description for How Philosophers Saved Myths
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.
