Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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 true or false and because it was inferior to argumentation, mythology was progressively reincorporated into philosophy through allegorical exegesis. Brisson shows to what degree allegory was employed among philosophers and how it enabled myth to take on a number of different interpretive systems throughout the centuries: moral, physical, psychological, political, and even metaphysical. How Philosophers Saved Myths also describes how, during the first years of the modern era, allegory followed a more religious path, which was to assume a larger role in Neoplatonism. Ultimately, Brisson explains how this embrace of myth was carried forward by Byzantine thinkers and artists throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance; after the triumph of Chistianity, Brisson argues, myths no longer had to agree with just history and philosophy but the dogmas of the Church as well.

Mythology, Classical. --- Allegory. --- Philosophy --- Personification in literature --- Symbolism in literature --- Classical mythology --- History. --- Allegory --- Mythology, Classical --- History --- philosophy, philosophical, academic, scholarly, history, historical, allegory, allegorical, critical, critique, close reading, literary, literature, classic, classical, mythology, folklore, research, greece, greek, rome, roman, ancient world, antiquity, renaissance, oral, storytelling, tradition, moral, psychological, political, fables, metaphysical, middle ages, modern.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Les formes littéraires du roman et de l’autobiographie ont en commun de n’être guère représentées dans la Grèce classique et de s’être constituées à partir de l’époque hellénistique et romaine. Elles ne cesseront plus, par la suite, de jouer un rôle dans la culture européenne. Elles offrent des éléments de réflexion importants sur l’apport des sciences de l’Antiquité.

Classical biography --- Biography as a literary form --- Autobiography --- History and criticism --- Augustine, --- Hesiod --- Biography --- Gesiod --- Geziod --- Esiodo --- Hēsiodos --- Hezjod --- Hésiode --- Hesíodo --- Hesiyodos --- הסיודוס --- Ἡσίοδος --- Augustine --- Augustinus, Aurelius --- Agostinho --- Augustine of Hippo --- Augustine d'Hippone --- Agostino d'Ippona --- Augustin d'Hippone --- Augustin, --- Augustinus Hipponensis, sanctus --- Augustinus, --- Sant'Agostino --- Augustinus van Hippo --- Aurelius Augustinus --- Aurelio Agostino --- 聖アウグスティヌス --- アウグスティヌス --- Avgustin, --- Augustinus, Aurelius, --- Augustyn, --- Ughasṭīnūs, --- Agostino, --- Agustí, --- Augoustinos, --- Aurelius Augustinus, --- Agustín, --- Aurelio Agostino, --- Episkopos Ippōnos Augoustinos, --- Augoustinos Ipponos, --- Agostinho, --- Ōgostinos, --- Agostino, Aurelio, --- אוגוסטינוס הקדוש --- أغسطينوس، --- 奥古斯丁 --- littérature et politique --- Grèce antique --- récit personnel --- histoire de la littérature --- étude classique --- histoire de l’écriture --- première personne du singulier --- écriture et politique --- littérature politique en Grèce antique