euhemerism

• “There is another side to euhemerism, and another consequence.”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “The first, and the most prosaic, is euhemerism: the gods were only men, famous or powerful men, who had been deified after their death through the adulation of their contemporaries.”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “As an orthodox mythologist, Banier finds euhemerism useful: as merely falsified or mistaken history, myth can be corrected and fitted back into biblical chronology and sacred history.”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “The most widespread of these revived views is euhemerism — the doctrine of Euhemerus that the gods are simply idealizations of famous mortals — and the most influential euhemerist treatise of the period is A. Banier's La Mythologie et les fables ex - pliquées par l'histoire (1711; revised 1715, and exten - sively, 1738-40).”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “Benjamin Hederich (1724) present myth as idolatry, lean to euhemerism and nod mechanically toward”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “So deeply spread and so deeply rooted was the belief in ecstasy as a divinely-caused state, that the apologists declared that euhemerism -- i.e. the attempt to explain the heathen religions by the deification of men -- failed because of the fact of oracles.”

  The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I.

• “Deification and euhemerism are equally natural to the”

  Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3

• “In Çivaism, in contradistinction to Vishnuism, there is not a trace of the euhemerism which has been suspected in the”

  The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow

• “A study of antiquity conducted in such a fashion could hardly have coloured mediæval thought with any real classicism, even if it had been devoted to much more genuine specimens of antiquity than the semi-Oriental medley of the Pseudo-Callisthenes and the bit of bald euhemerism which had better have been devoted to Hephæstus than ascribed to his priest.”

  The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)

• “Nothing can be more childish than the punctilious euhemerism by which all the miraculous elements of the”

  The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)

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