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Roman and European Mythologies

3/5 ( ratings)

This volume begins with Roman myths and traces their influence in
early Christian and later European literature. Ninety-five entries
by leading scholars cover subjects such as sacrificial cults and rites
in pre-Roman Italy, Roman religion and its origins, the mythologies of
paganism, the survival of the ancient gods in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance, gypsy myths and rituals, romanticism and myth in Blake,
Nerval, and Balzac, and myth in twentieth-century English literature.

Mythologies offers illuminating examples of the workings of
myth in the structure of societies past and present—how we create,
use, and are guided by systems of myth to answer fundamental questions
about ourselves and our world.

Many of the sections in Mythologies, originally published as a
two-volume cloth set, will soon be available in four paperback volumes
. These
volumes will reproduce the articles, introductory essays, and
illustrations as they appeared in the full Mythologies set.

Language: English

Pages: 342

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Release: November 15, 1992

ISBN: 0226064557

ISBN 13: 9780226064550

Roman and European Mythologies

3/5 ( ratings)

This volume begins with Roman myths and traces their influence in
early Christian and later European literature. Ninety-five entries
by leading scholars cover subjects such as sacrificial cults and rites
in pre-Roman Italy, Roman religion and its origins, the mythologies of
paganism, the survival of the ancient gods in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance, gypsy myths and rituals, romanticism and myth in Blake,
Nerval, and Balzac, and myth in twentieth-century English literature.

Mythologies offers illuminating examples of the workings of
myth in the structure of societies past and present—how we create,
use, and are guided by systems of myth to answer fundamental questions
about ourselves and our world.

Many of the sections in Mythologies, originally published as a
two-volume cloth set, will soon be available in four paperback volumes
. These
volumes will reproduce the articles, introductory essays, and
illustrations as they appeared in the full Mythologies set.

Language: English

Pages: 342

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Release: November 15, 1992

ISBN: 0226064557

ISBN 13: 9780226064550

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