| Roman and European Mythologies Contributor(s): Bonnefoy, Yves (Editor), Doniger, Wendy (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0226064557 ISBN-13: 9780226064550 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $52.47 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1992 Annotation: Roman and European Mythologies features ninty-five articles, reproduced in full with illustrations, from the acclaimed two-volume Mythologies. Written by distinguished scholars, the articles offer new perspectives on a wide range of topics--from rites and cults in pre-Roman and Roman Italy to the survival of pagan mythologies in early Christianity and the enduring legacy of mythologies in European literature from romanticism to modern science fiction. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Religion |
| Dewey: 291.130 |
| LCCN: 92015402 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 8.49" W x 10.98" (1.74 lbs) 342 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 (two are announced here; two more are scheduled for 1993). These volumes will reproduce the articles, introductory essays, and illustrations as they appeared in the full Mythologies set. |
Contributor Bio(s): Doniger, Wendy: - Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School and a professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.Bonnefoy, Yves: - Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016) is recognized as the greatest French poet of the past fifty years. By the time of his death, he had published eleven major collections of poetry in verse and prose, several books of tales, and numerous studies of literature and art. Hoyt Rogers translates works from French, German, Italian, and Spanish. |