How philosophers saved myths

Brisson, Luc.

How philosophers saved myths allegorical interpretation and classical mythology / [electronic resource] : Luc Brisson ; translated by Catherine Tihanyi. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004. - xiv, 206 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-199) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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Mythology, Classical.
Allegory.
Philosophy--History.


Electronic books.

BL727 / .B7513 2004eb

201/.3/01