TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brisson,Luc
TI  - How philosophers saved myths: allegorical interpretation and classical mythology 
SN  - 9780226075389 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BL727 .B7513 2004eb
U1  - 201/.3/01 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Mythology, Classical
KW  - Allegory
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History
KW  - Mythe
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Mythologie
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - Gaia & Earth Energies
KW  - Mythen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Klassieke oudheid
KW  - Allegorese
KW  - Receptie
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - მითოლოგია, კლასიკური
KW  - ფილოსოფიის ისტორია
KW  - რელიგია, მითები
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-199) and index; 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
N2  - 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. "This wonderful
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