How philosophers saved myths [electronic resource] : allegorical interpretation and classical mythology / Luc Brisson ; translated by Catherine Tihanyi.

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Brisson, Luc

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ebrary, Inc

Language: English Original language: French Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.Description: xiv, 206 pISBN:

0226075354 (alk. paper)

Uniform titles:

Sauver les mythes. English

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Electronic books.

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201/.3/01 22

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BL727 .B7513 2004eb

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Contents:

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.

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

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