- 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...
- that Late
Antiquity bequeathed to
patristic literature. In a
further euhemerist interpretation, Dikē was born a
mortal and Zeus
placed her on
Earth to...
- as king in 752 BCE. They
would then go to
found Rome.
Despite Livy's
euhemerist and
realist deflation of this myth, it is
clear that the
story of her...
-
Hesperides with the
snake coiled around it.
Diodorus Siculus gives an
euhemerist interpretation of Ladon, as a
human shepherd guarding a
flock of golden-fleeced...
-
another name for Auxo) and
Damia (possibly
another name for Carpo). In late
euhemerist interpretations, they were seen as
Cretan maidens who were worshipped...
- Melissa, a Melisseus, "king of Crete"; this
example of the
common Christian Euhemerist interpretation of Gr**** myth as
fables of
humans superstitiously credited...
-
obscure origin. The
etymology from ken + tauros, 'piercing bull', was a
euhemerist suggestion in Palaephatus'
rationalizing text on Gr**** mythology, On Incredible...
- temptations. and not an endor****t of the Gr**** myth. The
early Christian euhemerist interpretation of
mythologized human beings received a long-lasting boost...
-
explanations of the gods and
heroes as
physical phenomena,
while the
Euhemerists rationalized them as
historical figures. At the same time, the Stoics...