- in
attempt to
undermine the
validity of
pagan gods. The
usefulness of
euhemerist views to
early Christian apologists may be
summed up in
Clement of Alexandria's...
- ways.
Broadly speaking there are two
dominant trends. One is that of
Euhemerist accounts,
which re-wrote
mythical stories without their fantastic elements...
- be
traced back to
Victorian attempts to
interpret mythology through a
euhemerist lense,
seeing them as
containing references to
hidden past history; due...
-
where he
kills Paris with Heracles's arrows. In
Christian circles, a
Euhemerist reading of the
widespread Heracles cult was
attributed to a historical...
- as king in 752 BCE. They
would then go to
found Rome.
Despite Livy's
euhemerist and
realist deflation of this myth,[citation needed] it is
clear that...
-
explanations of the gods and
heroes as
physical phenomena,
while the
Euhemerists rationalized them as
historical figures. At the same time, the Stoics...
-
another name for Auxo) and
Damia (possibly
another name for Carpo). In late
euhemerist interpretations, they were seen as
Cretan maidens who were worshipped...
- his back—to be
welcomed by Asterion, but
according to the more literal,
euhemerist version that
begins the
account of Persian-****ene
confrontations of Herodotus...
- temptations. and not an endor****t of the Gr**** myth. The
early Christian euhemerist interpretation of
mythologized human beings received a long-lasting boost...
- that Late
Antiquity bequeathed to
patristic literature. In a
further euhemerist interpretation, Dikē was born a
mortal and Zeus
placed her on
Earth to...