Format:
Online Ressource (xiv, 206 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780226075389
,
0226075389
Uniform Title:
Sauver les mythes 〈English〉
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-199) and index. - Translated from the French. - Description based on print version record
Additional Edition:
0226075354
Additional Edition:
0226075354
Additional Edition:
9780226075358
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Brisson, Luc How philosophers saved myths Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004
Language:
English
Keywords:
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