How Philosophers Saved Myths
Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology
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2008
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-07537-2 (ISBN)
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-07537-2 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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.
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.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.6.2008 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | Catherine Tihanyi |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 16 x 22 mm |
| Gewicht | 340 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-07537-0 / 0226075370 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-07537-2 / 9780226075372 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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