The Survival of the Pagan Gods: The Mythological Tradition and Its Place in Renaissance Humanism and Art (Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology, 4) - Softcover

Seznec, Jean

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ISBN 10: 0691029881 ISBN 13: 9780691029887

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1953

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Book by Seznec Jean

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"Such a synthesis has never been attempted before, and the author ... has performed this much-needed service with exceptional distinction and clarity of purpose."--Art Digest "Here is a book ... that tells us what became of the gods after the fall of Rome, in what strange disguises they lived on, and how they emerged in the Quattrocento with odd attributes and symbols the ancients never knew... It is a formidable task, demanding vast learning in many fields; and it is brilliantly performed."--The Times Literary Supplement

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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.

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• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1953
• ISBN 10: 0691029881
• ISBN 13: 9780691029887
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400