Prolegomena Zu Einer Wissenschaftlichen Mythologie [German]

By: Müller, Carl Otfried

This pioneering work by the influential German classicist Karl Ottfried M ller (1797-1840) was one of the earliest scholarly books to address the question of the origins and meaning of the Greek myths. Published in G ttingen in 1825, it proposes a definition of 'myth' and goes on to suggest how possible sources for myths might be identified in historical events. M ller discusses how the age of particular myths might be established, either from the...

• Format: Printed Access Code
• Language: German
• ISBN: 0511711468
• ISBN13: 9780511711466
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press