Roman and European Mythologies

by Bonnefoy, Yves; Doniger, Wendy

• ISBN13: 9780226064550
• ISBN10: 0226064557
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-11-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

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. Mythologiesoffers 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 inMythologies,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 fullMythologiesset.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Preface to the English Edition of the Complete Work

Preface to the French Edition of the Complete Work

Contributors

Introduction: The Interpretation of Mythology Toward a Definition of Myth

The Interpretation of Myths: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Theories

Myth and Writing: The Mythographers

Prehistoric Religion

""Nomadic Thought"" and Religious Action

Rome Italy Religion in Pre-Roman

Italy: The Hist

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