Custom and Myth (Classic Reprint) - Brossura

Heywood, Florence

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1330079698 ISBN 13: 9781330079690

Casa editrice: Forgotten Books, 2016

Riassunto

Excerpt from Custom and Myth

In the essays styled The Myth of Cronus,' 'a Far Travelled Tale,' and Cupid and Psyche.' Why, then, do distinguished scholars and mythologists reach such different goals Clearly because their method is so precarious. They all analyse the names in myths 1 but, where one scholar decides that the name is originally Sanskrit, another holds that it is purely Greek, and a third, perhaps, is all for an Accadian etymology, or a Semitic derivation. Again, even when scholars agree as to the original root from which a name springs, they differ as much as ever as to the meaning of the name in its present place. The inference is that the analysis of names, on which the whole edifice of philological comparative mythology.

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• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1330079698
• ISBN 13: 9781330079690
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 322