The Survival of the Pagan Gods The Mythological Tradition and Its Place in Renaissance Humanism and Art |
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Author:
| Seznec, Jean |
Translator:
| Sessions, Barbara F. |
Series title: | Mythos: the Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-691-01783-9 |
Publication Date: | May 1972 |
Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $15.95 |
Book Description:
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The gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity--or so we have been taught to believe. But how are we to account for their tremendous popularity during the Renaissance? This illustrated book, now reprinted in a new, larger paperback format, offers the general reader first a discussion of mythology in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, and then a multifaceted look at the far-reaching role played by mythology in Renaissance intellectual and emotional life.
The gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity--or so we have been taught to believe. But how are we to account for their tremendous popularity during the Renaissance? This illustrated book, now reprinted in a new, larger paperback format, offers the general reader first a discussion of mythology in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, and then a multifaceted look at the far-reaching role played by mythology in Renaissance intellectual and emotional life.