Euhemerism and Its Uses: The Mortal Gods

Euhemerism and Its Uses offers the first interdisciplinary, focussed, and all-round view of the long history of an important but understudied phenomenon in European intellectual and cultural history.

Euhemerism - the claim that the Greek gods were historically mortal men and women - originated in the early third century BCE, in an enigmatic and now fragmentary text by the otherwise unknown author Euhemeros. This work, the Sacred Inscription,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367557010
• ISBN13: 9780367557010
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"