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Euhemerism and Its Uses - The Mortal Gods (Hardcover)
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Euhemerism and Its Uses - The Mortal Gods (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge
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Euhemerism and Its Uses offers the first interdisciplinary,
focussed, and all-round view of the long history of an important
but understudied phenomenon in European intellectual and cultural
history. Euhemerism - the claim that the Greek gods were
historically mortal men and women - originated in the early third
century BCE, in an enigmatic and now fragmentary text by the
otherwise unknown author Euhemeros. This work, the Sacred
Inscription, has been read variously as a theory of religion, an
atheist's manifesto, as justifying or satirizing ruler-worship, as
a fantasy travel-narrative, and as an early 'utopia'. Influencing
Hellenistic and Roman literature and religious and political
thought, and appropriated by early Christians to debunk polytheism
while simultaneously justifying the continued study of classical
literature, euhemerism was widespread in the middle ages and
Renaissance, and its reverberations continue to be felt in modern
myth-theory. Yet, though frequently invoked as a powerful and
pervasive tradition across several disciplines, it is still
under-examined and poorly understood. Filling an important gap in
the history of ideas, this volume will appeal to scholars and
students of classical reception, mediaeval and Renaissance
literature, historiography, and theories of myth and religion.
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