Euhemerus

With the Renaissance a some - what aesthetic cult of Euhemerus arises, finding human origins for the gods, who are regarded as divinized heroes.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANGUS FLETCHER 1968

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 BURTON FELDMAN 1968

Atlanteans appeared in the works of Euhemerus, Ovid,

UTOPIA ROGER L. EMERSON 1968

But Jesus, Buddha, and Muhammad stand on a very different footing from Krishna and Athena, even if we concede the view of some scholars that Krishna was once a man, and the contention of Euhemerus, a pre-Christian Greek, that all the gods had once been human.

The Jesus of History T. R. Glover

It was the doctrine taught by Euhemerus among the ancients, and has been maintained among the moderns by such distinguished authorities as Bochart, Bryant,

The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

It was mostly written in trochaic septenarii. (_b_) _Epicharmus_ (in trochaic tetrameters), dealing with Pythagoreanism in the department of physics. (_c_) _Euhemerus_ or _Sacra Historia_, modelled on Euhemerus 'ἱερὰ ἀναγραφή, [16] the doctrines of which were applied to the religion of Rome.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

But Jesus, Buddha, and Muhammad stand on a very different footing from Krishna and Athena, even if we concede the view of some scholars that Krishna was once a man, and the contention of Euhemerus, a pre-Christian Greek, that all the gods had once been human.

The Jesus of History Glover, T R 1916

Or, following the track of Euhemerus, they showed that the so-called gods were nothing but dead men.

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

They had then proceeded to put forth various theories to explain the great deception, amongst others, the theory of Euhemerus.

The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II. 1872-1939 1904

I wrote in accordance with some of the rules which thou lovest, O Theonoe, the life of the young god whom I served in my childhood, and for this they beat me like a Euhemerus and wonder what my motives can be, believing only in those things which enrich their trapezite tables.

Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897