The Survival of the Pagan Gods: The Mythological Tradition and Its Place in Renaissance Humanism and Art (Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology)

The gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity--or so we have been taught to believe. But how are we to account for their tremendous popularity during the Renaissance? This illustrated book now reprinted in a new larger paperback format offers the general reader first a discussion of mythology in late antiquity and the Middle Ages and then a multifaceted look at the far-reaching role played by mythology in Renaissance intellectual and emotional life.