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	Euhemerus - LoveToKnow 1911
		EUHEMERUS [EUEMERUS, EVEMERUS], Greek mythographer, born at Messana, in Sicily (others say at Chios, Tegea, or Messene in Peloponnese), flourished about 300 B.C., and lived at the court of Cassander.
		This system spread widely, and the early Christians especially appealed to it as a confirmation of their belief that ancient mythology was merely an aggregate of fables of human invention.
		Euhemerus was a firm upholder of the Cyrenaic philosophy, and by many ancient writers he was regarded as an atheist.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Euhemerus (451 words)

	Euhemerus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Euhemerus' birthplace is disputed, with Messana in Sicily or Messene in the Peloponnese as the most probable locations, while others champion Chios, or Tegea.
		In this work Euhemerus apparently systematized a method of interpreting the popular myths, which was consistent with the attempts of Hellenistic culture to explain traditional religious beliefs in terms of a rational naturalism.
		Euhemerus asserted that the Greek gods had been originally kings, heroes and conquerors, or benefactors to men, who had thus earned a claim to the veneration of their subjects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Euhemerus (1187 words)

	Euhemerus
		Euhemerus (flourished around 316 BC) was a Greek mythographer at the court of Cassander, the king of Macedonia.
		Euhemerus' birthplace is disputed, with Messana in Sicily or Messene in the Peloponnese as the most probable locations, while others champion Chios, or Tegea.
		Euhemerus asserted that the Greek gods had been originally kings, heroes and conquerors, or benefactors to men, who had thus earned a claim to the veneration of their subjects.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/Euhemerus.html (1115 words)

	Encyclopedia: Euhemerus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Euhemerus (about 316 BCE) was a Greek mythographer at the court of Cassander ; his birthplace is contested between Messana, in Sicily or Messene in the Peloponnese, with others saying at Chios, or Tegea.
		Euhemerus and his Christian admirers asserted that the god s had been originally heroes and conquerors, who had thus earned a claim to the veneration of their subjects.
		Euhemerus was a firm upholder of the Cyrenaic philosophy, the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica asserted, and by many ancient writers he was regarded as an atheist : his work was certainly translated by Ennius into Latin, but was lost.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Euhemerus (2751 words)

	EUHEMERUS Greek Myths: Preface
		When he sent Euhemerus to the East on an exploratory cultural-historical mission, he probably thought he was ensuring for his memory the kind of fame which Alexander had accrued in his lifetime as world-king in Greece and abroad.
		Euhemerus' name would have probably been consigned to the library files of antiquity forever, had he not incorporated in his writing the one idea which made his name famous.
		Euhemerus' theory proposed that the divine and semi-divine personages of myth were just people, perhaps remarkable people, but actually humans and not of divine origin.
	community.middlebury.edu /~harris/GreekMyth/Preface.html (4097 words)

	Euhemerus - Encyclopedia.com
		Euhemerus' theory, called after him euhemerism, was that the gods originated from the elaboration of traditions of distinguished historical persons.
		Euhemerus, we learn, was 'a Hellenistic author, around 300 BC', who wrote a 'fantasy travel novel' in which it is asserted...
		But it is impossible in such hurried visits to immortal works, to give an adequate idea of their character.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Euhemeru.html (530 words)

	Euhemerus. Cosmos of the Greek Philosophers
		Certain of the gods, they say, are eternal and imperishable, such as the sun and the moon and the other stars of the heavens, and the winds as well and whatever else possesses a nature similar to theirs; for of each of these the genesis and duration are from everlasting to everlasting.
		Euhemerus goes on to say that Uranus was the first to be king, that he was an honorable man and beneficent, who was versed in the movement of the stars, and that he was also the first to honor the gods of the heavens with sacrifices, whence he was called Uranus, or "Heaven".
		Euhemerus further tells of Zeus conquering Cilicia and visiting many other nations, "all of which paid honor to him and publicly proclaimed him a god." It is generally assumed that the island of Panchea, as well as the rest of what Euhemerus accounts, is more or less fiction of his.
	www.stenudd.com /myth/greek/euhemerus.htm (784 words)

	Talk:Euhemerus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Judging from the changes, the problem with the original is that it didn't sneer at Euhemerus and his followers enough.
		The article is now a rather POV history of euhemerism, with excessive emphasis on the bleeding obvious: that Euhemerus's book was fiction, euhemerism is only a theory, and the shocking idea that the early Christians were hostile to paganism.
		I think it is time to split the biographical Euhemerus article from the concept of Euhemerism.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Euhemerus (432 words)

	EUHEMERUS and the Greek Myths
		Euhemerus, living about 320 to 160 B.C., already saw that there was an emptiness in the standardized Greek mythology, which he approached by reassessing it in a newly critical and logical manner.
		Now everyone loves the Greek myths, from schoolchildren to the popular academician Joseph Campbell, who drew from his early studies in Indian mythology a strained view that the Greeks were also spiritual mythologists.
		This study follows the lead of Euhemerus as an authentic thinker back in the Hellenistic period, who believed that the Gods of Greece were in fact humanly-conceived incarnations of important historical figures who had achieved high reputation by advancing several areas of Greek society.
	community.middlebury.edu /~harris/SubIndex/greekmyth.html (393 words)

	THE GREEK MYTHS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		By sending Euhemerus to the East on an exploratory cultural-historical mission, he probably thought he was ensuring for his memory the kind of fame which Alexander had accrued in his lifetime as world-king in Greece and abroad.
		Euhemerus' name would have probably been consigned to the library files of antiquity forever, had he not incorporated in his thinking the one idea which made his name famous.
		Euhemerus' theory proposed that the divine and semi-divine personages of myth were just people, perhaps remarkable people, but actually human and not of divine origin.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/religion/821960/posts (6495 words)

	Euhemerus - Question.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Euhemerus (Ευημερος) (flourished around 316 BCE) was a Greek mythographer at the court of Cassander, the...
		Euhemerus is most noted for his "discovery" of the imaginary island of Pankhaea (Panchaea) in the...
		Euhemerus was a firm upholder of the Cyrenaic...
	www.question.com /find/Euhemerus.html (499 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Now Euhemerus, who was a friend of King Cassander [of Macedonia (301 to 297 B.C.)] and was required by him to perform certain affairs of state and to make great journeys abroad, says that he traveled...
		Euhemerus' birthplace is disputed, with Messana in Sicily or Messene in...
		EUHEMERUS EUHEMERUS, Greek mythographer, born at Messana, in Sicily (others say at Chios, Tegea, or Messene in Peloponnese), flourished about 300 B.c., and lived at the court of Cassander
	euhemerus.iqexpand.com (1140 words)

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