The survival of the pagan gods
Subtitle: the mythological tradition and its place in Renaissance humanism and art
By: by Jean Seznec ; translated from the French by Barbara F. Sessions
Series: Bollingen series -- 38; Mythos; Mythos (Princeton,, N.J.)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Humanism; Art, Renaissance; Mythology, Classical; Gods in art
Work titles: Survivance des dieux antiques.
Description: The gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity - or so we have been taught to believe. But how are we to account for their tremendous popularity during the Renaissance? This illustrated book, now reprinted in a new, larger paperback format, offers the general reader a multifaceted look at the far-reaching role played by mythology in Renaissance intellectual and emotional life.

After a discussion of mythology in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, Jean Seznec traces the fate of the gods from Botticelli and Raphael to their function and appearance in Ronsard's verses and Ben Jonson's masques.
Notes: "Originally published in French as La survivance des dieux antiques, Studies of the Warburg Institute, vol. XI, London, 1940."

Reprint of the ed. published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1981

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-345) and index