Pantheon Books
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La Survivance des dieux antiques is a work by Jean Seznec, published in 1940, just as France fell. Thanks to largely to Seznec, it is widely understood that the Olympian gods, and the earlier spirits of field and spring, did not die with the advent of Christianity, but lived on. They went underground to feature in folk culture, took on strange new guises and were transformed in various ways, their myths recast to suit some of the mythic saints of Late Antiquity, and their imagery permeated Medieval intellectual and emotional life. The transformed mythology re-emerged in the iconography of the early Tuscan Renaissance, with new attributes that the ancients had never imagined, and enjoyed tremendous renewed popularity during the Renaissance.
The book was translated in English in 1953 by Pantheon Books as The Survival of the Pagan Gods: Mythological Tradition in Renaissance Humanism and Art.
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