work benefits from the illustrated formats it has been receiving in modern paperback formats. Studies such as Joscelyn Godwin's The Pagan Dream Of The Renaissance (2002) depend on it. Godwin further explores Seznec's theme, how pagan deities captivated the European imagination during the Renaissance, taking their place side-by-side with Christian iconography and doctrines. Works La survivance des dieux antiques. Essai sur le rôle de la tradition mythologique dans l’humanisme et dans l’art de la Renaissance (Studies of the Warburg Institute, 11), London: The Warburg Institute 1940; 2nd ed. Paris: Flammarion 1980, repr. 1993 English tr.: The survival of the pagan gods. The mythological tradition and its place in Renaissance humanism and art. Tr. Barbara F. Sessions, New York 1953, repr. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP 1972, 1995 German tr.: Das Fortleben der antiken Götter. Die mythologische Tradition im Humanismus und in der Kunst der Renaissance. Tr. H. Jatho, 1990 Spanish tr. : Los dioses de la Antigüedad en la Edad Media y en el Renacimiento. Tr. Juan Aranzadi, Taurus, Madrid 1983 See also Aby Warburg References External links Brief biography of Jean Seznec 1905 births 1983 deaths People from Morlaix École Normale Supérieure alumni Mythographers Harvard University faculty Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Marshal Foch Professors of French Literature 20th-century French historians French male non-fiction writers Scholars of French literature Commanders of the Ordre national du Mérite Officiers of the Légion d'honneur 20th-century French male writers