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)

206 pages paperback 1996

3 editions

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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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