How philosophers saved myths : allegorical interpretation and classical mythology / Luc Brisson ; translated by Catherine Tihanyi.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.Description: xiv, 206 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0226075354 (alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Sauver les mythes. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 201/.3/01 22
LOC classification:
  • BL727 .B7513 2004
Online resources:
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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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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