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Euhemerism and Its Uses : The Mortal Gods

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge
ISBN-10 0367556995
ISBN-13 9780367556990
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint Routledge
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Mar 18th, 2021
Print length 336 Pages
Weight 662 grams
Dimensions 16.10 x 24.20 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 Social & cultural history
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Euhemerism and Its Uses is an inter-disciplinary volume, bringing together experts on classical, mediaeval and Renaissance literature, theory of myth and religious studies to give the first focussed and all-round view of the phenomenon across the long history of its evolution.

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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