How Philosophers Saved Myths
Subtitle: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology
Contributors: Catherine Tihanyi (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: April 15, 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780226075372
Subjects: Ancient Greece - History; History; Sociology; History: World; Ancient - Greece; Folklore & Mythology - Mythology; History & Surveys - General; History / Ancient / Greece
Table of contents: title: Translator's Note; title: Preface to the French Edition; title: Introduction; title: 1. Muthos And Philosophia; title: 2. Plato's Attitude toward Myth; title: 3. Aristotle and the Beginnings Of Allegorical Exegesis; title: 4. Stoics, Epicureans, and the New Academy; title: 5. Pythagoreanism and Platonism; title: 6. The Neoplatonic School of Athens; title: 7. Byzantium and the Pagan Myths; title: 8. The Western Middle Ages; title: 9. The Renaissance; title: Conclusion; title: Index of Greek Terms; title: General Index