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How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology

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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 once responsible for saving myth from historical annihilation. Even supposing philosophy was once to begin with critical of myth, mythology was once steadily reincorporated into philosophy through allegory. Brisson reveals how philosophers employed allegory and how it enabled myth to take on a lot of different interpretive systems during the centuries: moral, physical, psychological, political, and even metaphysical.
             “This wonderful book confirms Brisson’s status as one of the most major authorities in the field of classical antiquity. Overall, and with this excellent translation, the book is invaluable.”—Choice
            “A compressed overview with moments of great insight. . . . Its strengths lie in the main points Brisson is in a position to work into this brief remedy.”—Peter Struck, Journal of Religion

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