EUHEMERUS

yoohĕmˈərəs, fl. c.300 b.c., Cyrenaic philosopher, b. Sicily. He is famous for a theory of mythology embodied in his philosophical romance, Sacred History, a work of which only fragments remain. Euhemerus' theory, called after him euhemerism, was that the gods originated from the elaboration of traditions of distinguished historical persons. His theory was consistent with the attempts of his period to explain religious beliefs in terms of naturalism.

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Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria
Book by Susan A. Stephens; University of California Press, 2003
Subjects: Alexandria (Egypt)--Intellectual Life, Egyptian Poetry--Egypt--Alexandria--History And Criticism, Greek Poetry, Hellenistic--Egypt--Alexandria--History And Criticism, Language And Culture--Egypt--Alexandria, Literature, Comparative--Egyptian And Greek, Literature, Comparative--Greek And Egyptian, Poetics--History--To 500, Ptolemaic Dynasty--305-30 B.C
...Alexandrian poets, Hecataeus of Abdera, Euhemerus, and (somewhat later) Dionysus Scytobrachion...to justify innovation. HECATAEUS, EUHEMERUS, AND DIONYSIUS SCYTOBRACHION Since...influenced by Hecataeus was his contemporary, Euhemerus of Messene, who was famous (or infamous...
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Ptolemaic Alexandria
Book by P. M. Fraser; Clarendon Press, 1972
Subjects: Alexandria (Egypt)--Civilization
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Callimachus' Book of Iambi
Book by Arnd Kerkhecker; Oxford University, 1999
Subjects: Hipponax--Fl. 540-537 B.C--In Literature, Iambic Poetry, Greek--History And Criticism, Lost Literature--Greece, Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Satire, Greek--History And Criticism
...Wilamowitz on E. HF 411; Winiarczyk on Euhemerus T 1 A. 54 Denniston 31f; Hughes...throne on 27 January 246. By this time, Euhemerus 10f was probably long dead. An older...puzzle by referring the lines, not to Euhemerus himself, but to a statue. 73 Against...
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Order and History - Vol. 4
Book by Eric Voegelin; Louisiana State University Press, 1956
Subjects: Church--Unity, Civilization--Philosophy, Middle Ages--History, Order (Philosophy), Religions--History
...Papyrus and the Palermo Stone. Antiochus Soter. The Israelite Case. 6. THE HELLENIC CASE-EUHEMERUS Historia Sacra 101 The Non-Imperial Civilization. Hesiod. Herodotus. The Hellenistic Sequel. Egyptian...
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The Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria: A Study in the Narrative of the Letter of Aristeas
Book by Sylvie Honigman; Routledge, 2003
...geography. The closest parallel to it is Euhemerus journey to the island of Panchaea, known...unfortunate that the original text of Euhemerus account of his journey to Panchaea is...utopias of the Hellenistic period like Euhemerus work resulted from a blend of the travelogue...
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journal articles on: Euhemerus  - 6 results

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Religion, Agency Restitution
Journal article by Ronald C. Simons; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 8, 2002
Subjects: Religion, Agency Restitution (Book)
...Mother Earth, whom Littlewood studied extensively in Jamaica. This is followed by a chapter called In defense of Euhemerus. Euhemerus, we learn, was a Hellenistic author, around 300 BC, who wrote a fantasy travel novel in which it is asserted that...
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The Enlightenment View of Myth and Joel Barlow's Vision of Columbus
Journal article by Robert D. Richardson Jr.; Early American Literature, Vol. 13, 1978
Subjects: American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, American Literature--Revolutionary Period, 1775-1783
...dated approximately 1796, Barlow can be found firing the Encyclopedie (articles theiste, athees, atheism), Bayle, Euhemerus, Toland, Newton, Sale, Vossius, and Pluche. 7 During the years in France, Barlow also finished the translation (begun...
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Why Prewar Japanese Historians Did Not Tell the Truth
Journal article by John S. Brownlee; The Historian, Vol. 62, 2000
Subjects: Historical research--Japan, Historiography--Japan, History--Methodology, Japan--History, Social history--Japan
...Ancient Japan" Historical Reflections 14 (1987): 126. (11) Ibid., 131-32. (12) The euhemerist method took its name from Euhemerus, a scholar in ancient Greece who claimed to have gone to a distant isle and found physical evidence that Zeus was a human...
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Alfred Hillebrandt Reconsidered
Journal article by Michael Witzel; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 112, 1992
Subjects: Hillebrandt, Alfred--Authorship, Myth--India, Ritual--India
...Bloomfield, Hillebrandt. The RV does not know of natural phenomena that have become gods--it only knows of men. Great, indeed, is Euhemerus".(9) The book concludes with an index of names and subject matters, another of words in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and other languages...
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But It Is Impossible in Such Hurried Visits to Immortal Works, to Give an Adequate Idea of Their Character
Journal article by Bettina L. Knapp; Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 2002
Subjects: Artists--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hawthorne, Sophia--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Roman Journal (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Or was it a momentary lapse on Sophias part? a desire to rekindle the doctrine of a fourth century Sicilian philosopher, Euhemerus, who believed gods to have once been human beings, thus fostering the ancient belief in the cohabitation between Gods and...
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encyclopedia articles on: Euhemerus  - 2 results

 
 
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Euhemerus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
EUHEMERUS yoohem r s, fl. c.300 b.c., Cyrenaic philosopher, b. Sicily. He is famous for a theory of mythology embodied in his philosophical romance, Sacred History, a work of which only fragments remain. Euhemerus theory, called after him euhemerism, was that the gods originated from the elaboration of traditions of distinguished...
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Mythology
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...most fully developed by the Stoics, who reduced the Greek gods to moral principles and natural elements (see Stoicism ). Euhemerus considered the gods to have been renowned historical figures who became deified through the passage of time. Another interpretation...


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