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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Ptolemaic Alexandria
Book by P. M. Fraser; Clarendon Press, 1972
Subjects: Alexandria (Egypt)--Civilization
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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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Book III of the Sibylline Oracles and Its Social Setting
Book by Rieuwerd Buitenwerf; Brill, 2003
Subjects: Oracles, Greek
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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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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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journal articles on: Euhemerus  - 7 results

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The Truth Is out There: Christian Faith and the Classics of TV Science Fiction
Journal article; Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Vol. 17, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Truth is Out There: Christian Faith and the Classics of TV Science Fiction (Book)--Book reviews
...confuse readers about the contemporary relevance to science fiction of such figures as Blaise Pascal, Saint Augustine, Plato, Euhemerus, Socrates, Democritus, Saint Jerome, Plutarch, Epicurus, and others. These eclectic and extraneous ancient authors would be...
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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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Marguerite De Navarre and the Androgynous Portrait of Francois Ier
Journal article by Barbara Hochstetler Meyer; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 48, 1995
Subjects: Ier, Francois (King of France)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Portraits--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...descendants who were human. The reverse of this belief was Euhemeruss doctrine, as explained by Lactantius, "that the gods, one...in Seznac, 12-13. Only fragments remain of the writings of Euhemerus (c. 325-275 B.C.) as translated from the Greek by the poet...
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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, 2009
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, 2009
...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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