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Language: en
Pages: 170
Pages: 170
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-29 - Publisher: Vintage Canada
What are myths? How have they evolved? And why do we still so desperately need them? A history of myth is a history of humanity, Karen Armstrong argues in this
Language: en
Pages: 385
Pages: 385
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-03 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
Greek myths have long been admired as beautiful, thrilling stories but dismissed as serious objects of belief. For centuries scholars have held that Greek epics
Language: en
Pages: 199
Pages: 199
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-07-22 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
Surely the ancient Greeks would have been baffled to see what we consider their "mythology." Here, Claude Calame mounts a powerful critique of modern-day miscon
Language: en
Pages: 352
Pages: 352
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Rethinking History and Myth explores narrative and ritual expressions of mythic and historical modes of consciousness among indigenous peoples of the Andean, Am