Review of Luc Brisson, How Philosophers Saved Myths

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Departmental Papers (Classical Studies)
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Anthropology
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Classical Literature and Philology
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In this wide-ranging book, first published in German and French in 1996, Luc Brisson aims to cover two millennia of thinking on allegory in barely 160 pages. The result is a compressed overview with moments of great insight. Its strengths lie in the details Brisson is able to work into this brief treatment; its weakness lies in Brisson's failure to justify the system into which he arranges the whole.

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2006-01-01
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Journal of Religion
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