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InGalatians 4:28, Paul uses Isaac as an allegory for those who are children of promise: "Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise." This emphasizes the concept of believers being heirs to the promises made to Abraham through faith, not merely through physical descent. The Epi...
A good example was Plato’s allegory of the cave that was meant to explain the ability of the learned human beings to distinguish the true reality behind surface impressions. Could Plato have made the same philosophical point in a literal language, minus the use of any stories or analogies?
Greek mythology passed through the classical period, when it was the bearer and exponent of the city-state ideology and through the Hellenistic-Roman period, when it was transformed into a literary and artistic device—into allegory or metaphor. Parallel to the development of Greek mythology was ...
While the discussion whether the cosmogony described in Timeaus should be taken as an allegory or not (and whether it is really a "creationist" account-since the appropriate vocabulary for a purely materialistic description of the birth of the universe was lacking at the time), few facts are ...
[Zeus] when he was trying to save his mother from a beating, and the battles of the gods in Homer's verse are things that we must not admit into our city either wrought in allegory or without allegory. For the young are not able to distinguish what is and what is not allegory." ...
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If I gave him any credit for subtlety, I’d almost wonder if he’d changed sides—because if this book makes any sense, it’s as a bitter satire, with Thucydides’ gloomy story of Greeks slaughtering each other to the benefit of their Persian enemy as an allegory for our Fools’ Crusad...
Interestingly, the name of the movie Πρόμαχος (Prómahos), refers to a bronze statue of Athena Promachos, which used to guard the entrance of Parthenon. This is presented as an allegory for the persistence of the two attorneys, who try to guard the Greek culture by returning...
Browning's famous poem, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," is an allegory of the pilgrimage of man through the dark places of the earth, on a dismal path beset with demons, and strewn with the wreckage of generations of failures. In his ear tolled the knell of all the lost adven...