How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology

by Luc Brisson (Author)

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  2008

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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.