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Plato the myth maker Plato the myth maker Luc Brisson The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and tel… OL1699535W
How Philosophers Saved Myths How Philosophers Saved Myths Luc Brisson This study explains how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. Luc Brisson argues that philosophy was ironically responsible for saving myth from historical … OL1699539W
A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest, with ... A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest, with ... William Smith ,William George Smith Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. OL19801109W