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This document discusses the history and origins of allegorical interpretation in Greece and Egypt. It argues that Plutarch was building on an established tradition of allegorical interpretation that had existed for centuries prior. Early philosophers like Xenophanes and Heracleitus began interpreting problematic myths about the gods allegorically to reconcile them with developing moral standards. Theagenes of Rhegium in the 6th century BC was one of the first to interpret Homer allegorically, though the pra

Author

Angelo_Colonna

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EN