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Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC)
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"Myth: A New Symposium offers a broad-based assessment of the present state of myth study. It is inspired by a revisiting of the influential mid-twentieth-century work Myth: A Symposium (edited by Thomas Sebeok). A systematic introduction and fifteen contributions from a wide sp…
Myth: A New Symposium offers a broad-based assessment of the present state of myth study. It is inspired by a revisiting of the influential mid-century work Myth: A Symposium (edited by Thomas Sebeok). A systematic introduction and 15 contributions from a wide spectrum of discip…
Myth: a new symposium
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Type: Book
"Myth: A New Symposium offers a broad-based assessment of the present state of myth study. It is inspired by a revisiting of the influential mid-twentieth-century work Myth: A Symposium (edited by Thomas Sebeok). A systematic introduction and fifteen contributions from a wide sp…
Features stories of revered deities, sacred places, key events and epics, with many recurring themes and traditions. Addresses the key mythologies of the regions we now call India, China, Tibet, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Japan; broad overviews of specific cultures and th…
"Ever since Herodotus declared in his Histories that to preserve the memories of the great achievements of the Greeks and other nations he would count on their own stories, historians have debated whether and how they should deal with myth. Most have sided with Thucydides, who d…
In this wide-ranging work, the master of structural anthropology considers the many variations in a story that occurs in both North and South America, but especially among the Salish-speaking peoples of the Northwest Coast. He also shows how centuries of contract with Europeans …
This new edition of William Doty's critically acclaimed study provides a comprehensive guidebook to the many schools of interpretation in this burgeoning field. William Doty's popular text has been hailed as the most comprehensive work of its kind. Extensively rewritten and comp…
Presenting major myth theorists from antiquity to the present, this work offers a cross-disciplinary approach to the study of myth. Rewritten and restructured, it reflects the increased interest in myth among both scholars and general readers since the publication of the first e…
