The Rise and Fall of Myth in Antiquity

Julian's approach to myth has become canonized and formulated in terms of what we might almost call a kind of literary theory julian gives us examples of this reading methodology in action he interprets the story of the tower of babel from the Hebrew scriptures. He does exegesis of the myth of kubel and attis as well in metaphysical terms so this is all pretty standard stuff for listeners to this podcast who've been following our coverage of platonism since antiquity. Another thing i think julian adds to the mix here is a kind of political wisdom lineage and this is really really interesting uh we see this in his satirical work the caesars sometimes sometimes act like