How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology by Luc Brisson

How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology

Luc Brisson with Catherine Tihanyi (Translator)

224 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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This study explains how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. Luc Brisson argues that philosophy was ironically responsible for saving myth from historical annihilation. Although philosophy was initially ...

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