How philosophers saved myths allegorical interpretation and classical mythology
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press
2004.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31508881*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 school of Athens
- Byzantium and the pagan myths
- The Western Middle Ages
- The Renaissance.
