LEADER 03366nam 22006494a 450 001 9910829193103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-95923-5 010 $a9786611959234 010 $a0-226-07538-9 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226075389 035 $a(CKB)1000000000579638 035 $a(EBL)448521 035 $a(OCoLC)309340853 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000173541 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11180031 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000173541 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10164823 035 $a(PQKB)10178814 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000121890 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC448521 035 $a(DE-B1597)524199 035 $a(OCoLC)781291046 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226075389 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL448521 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10265886 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL195923 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000579638 100 $a20040323d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHow philosophers saved myths $eallegorical interpretation and classical mythology /$fLuc Brisson ; translated by Catherine Tihanyi 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (222 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 167-199) and index. 327 $aMuthos 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aMythology, Classical 606 $aAllegory 606 $aPhilosophy$xHistory 615 0$aMythology, Classical. 615 0$aAllegory. 615 0$aPhilosophy$xHistory. 676 $a201/.3/01 700 $aBrisson$b Luc$0384392 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910829193103321 996 $aHow philosophers saved myths$91671483 997 $aUNINA