How philosophers saved myths allegorical interpretation and classical mythology /

Brisson, Luc (1946-....)

How philosophers saved myths allegorical interpretation and classical mythology / [Texte imprimé] : Luc Brisson ; translated by Catherine Tihanyi - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004 - 1 vol. (XIV-206 p.) ; 24 cm

Index

Bibliogr. p. 167-199

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

0226075354 (alk. paper)

Mythology, Classical Allegory Philosophy

291.1301