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224 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226075358
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01 December 2004
Description
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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224 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226075358
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01 December 2004
Description
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 ...