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How Philosophers Saved Myths

Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology

af Luc Brisson

Bog, Paperback, Engelsk, 2008

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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  • SprogEngelsk
  • IndbindingPaperback
  • ISBN9780226075372
  • Udgivet1/03/2008
  • Udgivet afThe University of Chicago Press
  • Længde221 sider
  • ForfatterLuc Brisson
  • GenreHistorie og samfund