How philosophers saved myths : allegorical interpretation and classical mythology / Luc Brisson ; translated by Catherine Tihanyi.

Author/creator Brisson, Luc
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Descriptionxiv, 206 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Uniform titleSauver les mythes. English
Contents Muthos and philosophia -- Plato's attitude toward myth -- Aristotle and the beginnings of allegorical exegesis -- Stoics, Epicureans, and the New Academy -- Pythagoreanism and Platonism -- The Neoplatonic Athens school -- Byzantium and the pagan myths -- The Western Middle Ages -- The Renaissance.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 167-199) and index.
LCCN 2004006948
ISBN0226075354 (alk. paper)