How Philosophers Saved Myths

副标题: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology

ISBN: 9780226075358

出版社: University Of Chicago Press

出版年: 2004-12-1

页数: 224

定价: USD 35.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

In this concise but wide-ranging study, Luc Brisson describes how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. He argues that philosophy was responsible for saving myth from historical annihilation. Although philosophy was initially critical of myth, mythology was progressively reincorporated into philosophy through allegory. Brisson 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.