How Philosophers Saved Myths
Subtitle: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology
Contributors: Catherine Tihanyi (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: December 1, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780226075358
Description: Luc Brisson explains how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance and how philosophers must be awarded the credit for saving these colourful tales from historical annialation.