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

How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology

Luc Brisson, Catherine Tihanyi

221 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 phi...

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