How Philosophers Saved Myths
Mythe
Aristotle
Stoics
Receptie
Mythen
Allegory
Plato
Philosophy, history
Myth
Greece
Mythology, classical
Greek
Classical Mythology
Klassieke oudheid
Mythologie
Renaissance
Mythology
Middle Ages
Philosophie
Religion
Philosophy
History
This 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 tru…
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