Euhemerism is a rationalizing method of interpretation, which treats mythological accounts as a reflection of historical events, or mythological characters as historical personages but which were shaped, exaggerated or altered by retelling and traditional mores. It was named for its creator Euhemerus. In more recent literature of myth, such as in ...
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explanation of mythology as growing out of history
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• (n.) The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts.
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(from the article `Euhemerus`) author of a utopian work that was popular in the ancient world; his name was given to the theory that gods are great men worshipped after their death ... ...a 3rd-century- poet and scholar in Alexandria, recorded many obscure myths; his contemporary, the mythographer Euhemerus, suggested that the gods ... ...
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Theory of the origin of mythology, which claims that the gods were once humans, deified after death for their exceptional qualities and actions. It was founded by the...
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Eu·hem'er·ism noun [ Latin
Euhemerus , Greek ... a philosopher, about 300 ....] The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts.
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Euhemerism or eumerism is a method or system (so named from its founder Euhemerus, a Greek philosopher) of interpreting myths and mythological deities, by which they are regarded as deifications of dead heroes and poetical exaggerations of real histories.
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The view that explains religious myths as traditional and partially distorted accounts of historical events and personages; from Euhemerus, Cyrenaic philosopher (c. 300 B.C.), who advanced the theory that the gods of mythology were deified heroes. -- G.R.M.
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(often cap.) the theory of Euhemerus that the mythologies of various gods arose out of the deification of dead heroes. · the theory that mythology is derived from history.
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