How philosophers saved myths : allegorical interpretation and classical mythology / Luc Brisson ; translated by Catherine Tihanyi.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.Description: xiv, 206 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0226075354 (alk. paper)
- Sauver les mythes. English
- 201/.3/01 22
- BL727 .B7513 2004
Contents:
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 Athens school -- Byzantium and the pagan myths -- The Western Middle Ages -- The Renaissance.
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Circulating | Philip Becker Goetz Library | BL727 .B7513 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
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 Athens school -- Byzantium and the pagan myths -- The Western Middle Ages -- The Renaissance.
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