Mysteriously Meant : The Rediscovery of Pagan Symbolism and Allegorical Interpretation in the Renaissance

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Main Author: Allen, Don Cameron, 1903-1972
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1970]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pagan myth and Chri̤̤̤stian apologetics
  • The Renaissance search for Christian origins: the philosophers
  • The Renaissance search for Christian origins: the sacred history
  • Undermeanings in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
  • The symbolic wisdom of the Ancient Egyptians
  • Undermeanings in Virgil's Aeneid
  • Undermeanings in Ovid's Metamorphoses
  • The allegorical interpretation of the Renaissance mythographers
  • The symbolic interpretations of Renaissance antiquarians
  • The rationalization of myth and the end of allegory.