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How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology
How Philosophers Saved Myths Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology
Author: Luc Brisson
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 t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226075372
ISBN-10: 0226075370
Publication Date: 6/1/2008
Pages: 221
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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