Pernety, Antoine Joseph (1716-1801)

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Pernety, Antoine Joseph (1716-1801)

Author of the Dictionnaire Mytho-Hermetique (1787) and Les Fables Egyptiennes et Grecques (1758). According to Pernety, the Golden Fleece in the Jason-Medea legend is symbolic. The labors of Jason represent human strivings towards perfection.

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