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How Philosophers Saved Myths
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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.
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How Philosophers Saved Myths, Luc Brisson
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- 2008
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- Title
- How Philosophers Saved Myths
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Luc Brisson
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0226075370
- ISBN13
- 9780226075372
- Category
- Social sciences, Textbooks, University and college textbooks
- Description
- 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.