How Philosophers Saved Myths

Autori

• Luc Brisson

Parametri

• Folclore
• Saggistica

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Describes how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. This study 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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Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2008

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