The Survival of the Pagan Gods

The Survival of the Pagan Gods
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 9780691029887
ISBN-13 : 0691029881
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Book Synopsis The Survival of the Pagan Gods by : Jean Seznec

Download or read book The Survival of the Pagan Gods written by Jean Seznec and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 a multifaceted look at the far-reaching role played by mythology in Renaissance intellectual and emotional life. After a discussion of mythology in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, Jean Seznec traces the fate of the gods from Botticelli and Raphael to their function and appearance in Ronsard's verses and Ben Jonson's masques.


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