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Myth in History, History in Myth
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Society for Netherlandic History (U.S.). International Conference
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: BRILL

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In 1975, a group of Dutch and British scholars published a conference volume of collected essays entitled "Some Political Mythologies." That conference sought t
A Short History of Myth (Myths series)
Language: en
Pages: 170
Authors: Karen Armstrong
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-29 - Publisher: Vintage Canada

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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
The Story of Myth
Language: en
Pages: 385
Authors: Sarah Iles Johnston
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-03 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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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
Myth and History in Ancient Greece
Language: en
Pages: 199
Authors: Claude Calame
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-07-22 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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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
Rethinking History and Myth
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: American Anthropological Association. Annual Meeting
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press

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Rethinking History and Myth explores narrative and ritual expressions of mythic and historical modes of consciousness among indigenous peoples of the Andean, Am