Roman and European Mythologies

ISBN: 0226064557

Author: Bonnefoy, Yves

Condition: New

This volume begins with Roman myths and traces their influence inearly Christian and later European literature. Ninety-five entriesby leading scholars cover subjects such as sacrificial cults and ritesin pre-Roman Italy, Roman religion and its origins, the mythologies ofpaganism, the survival of the ancient gods in the Middle Ages and theRenaissance, 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 ofmyth in the structure of societies past and present-how we create,use, and are guided by systems of myth to answer fundamental questionsabout ourselves and our world.Many of the sections in Mythologies, originally published as atwo-volume cloth set, will soon be available in four paperback volumes(two are announced here; two more are scheduled for 1993). Thesevolumes will reproduce the articles, introductory essays, andillustrations as they appeared in the full Mythologies set.