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

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