How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology - Hardcover

Brisson, Luc

 
9780226075358: How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226075354 ISBN 13: 9780226075358
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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 progressively reincorporated into philosophy through allegory. Brisson reveals how philosophers employed allegory and how it enabled myth to take on a number of different interpretive systems throughout the centuries: moral, physical, psychological, political, and even metaphysical.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Luc Brisson is director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France. He is the author of several books, including Plato the Mythmaker, published by the University of Chicago Press. Catherine Tihanyi, a research associate at Western Washington University, has translated a number of books for the University of Chicago Press, including Adam Biro's Two Jews on a Train.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226075354
ISBN 13 
9780226075358
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
224
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