How Philosophers Saved Myths
Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology
Preface to the French Edition
Introduction
1. Muthos And Philosophia
2. Plato’s Attitude toward Myth
3. Aristotle and the Beginnings Of Allegorical Exegesis
4. Stoics, Epicureans, and the New Academy
5. Pythagoreanism and Platonism
6. The Neoplatonic School of Athens
7. Byzantium and the Pagan Myths
8. The Western Middle Ages
9. The Renaissance
Conclusion
Index of Greek Terms
General Index
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