03801nam 22006734a 450 991082919310332120240501010103.01-281-95923-597866119592340-226-07538-910.7208/9780226075389(CKB)1000000000579638(EBL)448521(OCoLC)309340853(SSID)ssj0000173541(PQKBManifestationID)11180031(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000173541(PQKBWorkID)10164823(PQKB)10178814(StDuBDS)EDZ0000121890(MiAaPQ)EBC448521(DE-B1597)524199(OCoLC)781291046(DE-B1597)9780226075389(Au-PeEL)EBL448521(CaPaEBR)ebr10265886(CaONFJC)MIL195923(EXLCZ)99100000000057963820040323d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHow philosophers saved myths allegorical interpretation and classical mythology /Luc Brisson ; translated by Catherine Tihanyi1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press20041 online resource (222 p.)Description based upon print version of record.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.This study explains how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. Luc Brisson argues that philosophy was ironically responsible for saving myth from historical annihilation. Although philosophy was initially critical of myth because it could not be declared true or false and because it was inferior to argumentation, mythology was progressively reincorporated into philosophy through allegorical exegesis. Brisson shows to what degree allegory was employed among philosophers and how it enabled myth to take on a number of different interpretive systems throughout the centuries: moral, physical, psychological, political, and even metaphysical. How Philosophers Saved Myths also describes how, during the first years of the modern era, allegory followed a more religious path, which was to assume a larger role in Neoplatonism. Ultimately, Brisson explains how this embrace of myth was carried forward by Byzantine thinkers and artists throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance; after the triumph of Chistianity, Brisson argues, myths no longer had to agree with just history and philosophy but the dogmas of the Church as well.Mythology, ClassicalAllegoryPhilosophyHistoryphilosophy, philosophical, academic, scholarly, history, historical, allegory, allegorical, critical, critique, close reading, literary, literature, classic, classical, mythology, folklore, research, greece, greek, rome, roman, ancient world, antiquity, renaissance, oral, storytelling, tradition, moral, psychological, political, fables, metaphysical, middle ages, modern.Mythology, Classical.Allegory.PhilosophyHistory.201/.3/01Brisson Luc384392Tihanyi Catherine1614524MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910829193103321How philosophers saved myths3944361UNINA