Notes

• "This study explains how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. Luc Brisson argues that, ironically, philosophy was 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."–BOOK JACKET