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How philosophers saved myths : allegorical interpretation and classical mythology

Title
How philosophers saved myths : allegorical interpretation and classical mythology / Luc Brisson ; translated by Catherine Tihanyi.
Author
Brisson, Luc.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

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xiv, 206 p.; 24 cm.
Uniform Title
Sauver les mythes. English
Alternative Title
Sauver les mythes.
Subject
  • Mythology, Classical
  • Allegory
  • Philosophy > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-199) and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 04-15704
ISBN
0226075354 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2004006948
OCLC
54897839
Author
Brisson, Luc.
Title
How philosophers saved myths : allegorical interpretation and classical mythology / Luc Brisson ; translated by Catherine Tihanyi.
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-199) and index.
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JFE 04-15704
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