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  • Euhemerist accounts become more prominent in Alexandrian scholarship of the Hellenistic period.
  • Of the early 19th century, George Stanley Faber was another Biblical euhemerist.
  • The Early Christian euhemerist interpretation of mythologized human beings received a long-lasting boost from Venus ."
  • Outside of Biblical influenced literature, some archaeologists embraced euhemerist views since they discovered myths could verify archaeological findings.
  • The apologists deployed the euhemerist argument to support their position that pagan mythology was merely an aggregate of fables of human invention.
  • In this, he relies on earlier Christian writings, notably John of Damascus and perhaps also Lactantius ( an influential Christian euhemerist ).
  • According to Plato, the first king of Atlantis was also named euhemerist origin for Atlas was as a legendary Atlas, king of Mauretania, an expert astronomer.
  • The later art of rhetoric treated the personification of abstract concepts as an artistic device, which devolved into the euhemerist interpretation, Dik was born a mortal and Zeus placed her on Earth to keep mankind just.
  • Further literary evidence, suggesting the deification of Juba II even Ptolemy, is from the brief euhemerist exercise entitled " On the Vanity of Idols " by the Christian Saint of the 3rd century, Cyprian.
  • The twentieth century poet and mythographer Robert Graves offered many such " euhemerist " interpretations in his telling of " The White Goddess " ( 1948 ) and " The Greek Myths " ( 1955 ).
  • The usefulness of euhemerist views to early Christian apologists may be summed up in Clement of Alexandria's triumphant cry in " Cohortatio ad gentes " : " Those to whom you bow were once men like yourselves ."
  • He is Euhemerist to the extent that he believes that any hypothesis at all, no matter how outrageous, is more plausible than saying " I don't know "; in this regard he accepts Polybius'arguments completely.
  • In 1711, the French historian Antoine Banier in his " Mythologie et la fable expliqu閟 par l'histoire " ( " The mythology and fables of the ancients, explained " ) presented strong arguments for a euhemerist interpretation of Greek mythology.
  • Diodorus Siculus gives an euhemerist interpretation of Ladon, as a human shepherd guarding a flock of golden-fleeced sheep, adding " But with regards to such matters it will be every man s privilege to form such opinions as accord with his own belief ".
  • All the gods, according to the Euhemerist belief, had been living men; Vahagn likewise, was introduced within the ranks of the Armenian kings, as a son of the Orontid Dynasty ( or " Yervanduni dynasty ", 6th century B . C . ), together with his brothers  Bab and Tiran.
  • Not depriving the Mauri of their line of kings would have contributed to preserving loyalty and order, it appears : " The Mauri, indeed, manifestly worship kings, and do not conceal their name by any disguise, " Cyprian observed in 247, likely quoting a geographer's rather than personal observation, in his brief euhemerist exercise in deflating the gods, entitled " On the Vanity of Idols ".
  • Polybius is the most euhemerist source to this date : he justifies the description of Aeolus in the " Odyssey " as " king of the winds " on the grounds that Aeolus " taught navigators how to steer a course in the regions of the Strait of Messina, whose waters are . . . difficult to navigate ", and insists that the mythical elements in the wanderings are insignificant in comparison to the historical core.