10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EUHEMERIST»
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euhemerist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Latin American Literature: Symptoms, Risks and Strategies of ...
EUHEMERIST Euhemerus was an ancient Greek writer who read Homer as a
source of information . . . as a factual (and ... in order, it might seem, to slake the
passions of an Euhemerist and allow identification of the places being spoken of.
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The Classical Tradition and the Americas: European images of ...
The Euhemerist Tradition in the 16th Century 175 III. Euhemerus in the New
World 177 IV. The Archeology of the New World 182 V. Conclusion: A Reciprocal
Interlocking 187 7. Renaissance and the Revival of History In 1568, in dedicating
his ...
Wolfgang Haase, Meyer Reinhold, 1994
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European Images of the Americas and the Classical Tradition
The Euhemerist Tradition and the European Perception and Description of the
American Indians by FRANK LESTRINGANT"" Contents I. Renaissance and the
Revival of History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 II. The Euhemerist Tradition in
the ...
Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 1994
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Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity
A particular type of criticism of myth is the euhemerist theory according to which
the gods are really men of the past divinized for their great works, and the myths
are an idealized account with divine trappings of what were really historical ...
Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, 2010
5
Image, Text, and Religious Reform in Fifteenth-Century England
irony that in late medieval England the euhemerist explanation is most often
advanced by poets. John Gower alludes to euhemerism in his Confessio Amantis
, noting that the father, Cirophanes, grieving over his son's death, decides to ...
6
Utter Antiquity: Perceptions of Prehistory in Renaissance ...
The crisis of belief and understanding foreshadowed in Renaissance attitudes
toward the classical history myths involved a complex interaction, in some
respects a conflict, among euhemerist historism, resurgent allegorism, endemic ...
7
Greece Before History: An Archaeological Companion and Guide
Euhemerist scholars tend to be embarrassed by the wilder effusions of the
literalists and other popular writers, journalists, cranks, and quacks, but to their
credit, they have persevered. The case of the Euhemerist scholars, namely that
there ...
Curtis Neil Runnels, Priscilla Murray, 2001
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Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity
These rationalized gods indicate a broadening of strictly Palaephatean concerns;
and yet we must approach these examples of Euhemerist influence with some
careful discrimination. Heraclitus' humanized gods have an incidental quality: ...
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Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und ...
... of Diodorus Siculus which has not otherwise come down to us. He historicizes
Greek cults and mysteries in accordance with this theory194, explicitly stating the
Euhemerist argument195. Though Athanasius does not mention Euhemerus, ...
Hildegard Temporini, Wolfgang Haase, 1980
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Inventing Inventors in Renaissance Europe: Polydore Vergil's ...
This line of reasoning is slightly changed in the first of the eight-book editions (
1521), now combining the evil influence of demons with euhemerist arguments:
Long ago when the terrestrial demons [...], whom (as Eusebius writes in his De ...
