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Comparative Mythology

Paperback • 1989 • English • 1. edition

Comparative Mythology

By Jaan Puhvel

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In a magisterial work, Jaan Puhvel unravels the prehistoric Indo-Euopean origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs. Utilizing the methodologies of historical linguistics and archaeology, he reconstructs a shared religious, mytholoigcal, and cultural heritage. Separate chapters on individual traditions as well as on recurrent thees―god and warrior, king and virgin, fire and water―give life to Comparative Mythology as both a general intro...Show more

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9780801839382

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Published year

1989

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Comparative Mythology

Format

Paperback

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