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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 938
EAN num: 9780226075372
ISBN number: 0226075370
Label: University Of Chicago Press
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 221
Printing Date: June 01, 2008
Publishing house: University Of Chicago Press
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In this concise but wide-ranging study, Luc Brisson describes how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. He argues that philosophy was responsible for saving myth from historical annihilation. Although philosophy was initially critical of myth, mythology was progressively reincorporated into philosophy through allegory. Brisson reveals how philosophers employed allegory and how it enabled myth to take on a number of different interpretive systems throughout the centuries: moral, physical, psychological, political, and even metaphysical.
“This wonderful book confirms Brisson’s status as one of the major authorities in the field of classical antiquity. Overall, and with this excellent translation, the book is invaluable.”—Choice
“A compressed overview with moments of great insight. . . . Its strengths lie in the details Brisson is able to work into this brief treatment.”—Peter Struck, Journal of Religion
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This is an important work, one that should not be overlooked by a serious scholar of either discipline referenced in its title. But Brisson's erudition is staggering, and unfortunately his text (which is in translation from the French) is correspondingly dense. It becomes an incredible chore to slog through the accounts of each individual philosopher and their personal stance on the significance of myth. In many ways, this book works best as a reference tool, providing helpful outlines of the development of mythological interpretation at various points in very first ancient Greek, and later Western European thought. Reading it in one go, however, is a difficult task indeed.
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