How philosophers saved myths [electronic resource] : allegorical interpretation and classical mythology /
Brisson, Luc.
How philosophers saved myths allegorical interpretation and classical mythology / [electronic resource] : Luc Brisson ; translated by Catherine Tihanyi. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004. - xiv, 206 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-199) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Mythology, Classical.
Allegory.
Philosophy--History.
Electronic books.
BL727 / .B7513 2004eb
201/.3/01
How philosophers saved myths allegorical interpretation and classical mythology / [electronic resource] : Luc Brisson ; translated by Catherine Tihanyi. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004. - xiv, 206 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-199) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Mythology, Classical.
Allegory.
Philosophy--History.
Electronic books.
BL727 / .B7513 2004eb
201/.3/01