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How Philosophers Saved Myths : Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology.
This study explains how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. Luc Brisson argues that philosophy was ironically responsible for saving myth from historical annihilation. Although philosophy was initially critical of myth because it could not be declared tru...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Translator's Note; Preface to the French Edition; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; One: Muthos and Philosophia; Two: Plato's Attitude toward Myth; Three: Aristotle and the Beginnings of Allegorical Exegesis; Four: Stoics, Epicureans, and the New Academy; Five: Pythagoreanism and Platonism; Six: The Neoplatonic School of Athens; Seven: Byzantium and the Pagan Myths; Eight: The Western Middle Ages; Nine: The Renaissance; Conclusion; Notes; Index.