The Platonic myths

South Bend, Ind.: St. Augustine's Press (2011)
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Pieper distinguishes between Platonic stones in which Plato crystallizes mythical fragments from the mere stories which contain them, and Platonic myths, in which he purifies the proper mythical elements, freeing them of the non-mythical elements which tend to obscure them.

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B398.M8.P5 2011

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