Professor pierre grimal ed (1 risultati)
Altre immaginiEditore: Paul Hamlyn, 1972
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. 560 pp; Third Impression, 1972. Book has no names, pages unmarked, color vibrant. This is a nice, clean, tight and very attractive book. Due to this book's weight at 2.3 Kilos (over 5lb), additional shipping will be needed. This is a h…eavy book and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. Illustrated with black & white photos and plates and 40 pages of full colour photos and plates. In Larousse World Mythology, under the editorship of Pierre Grimal of the Institut de France, twenty-three authors provide an authoritative survey of the myths of the world's principal societies. They analyse the form and function of myth, note its variations and evolution, and examine recurrent themes. They range form the dark, cave-bound rites of prehistoric man, through the system of Egyptian gods, the monotheistic patterns of the ancient near east, the Indian pantheon, and the gods and heroes of classical Greece and Rome. In less commonly charted areas they survey the polytheistic cults of northern Europe, the nature spirits of the American Indians, the sacrificial cults of Central America, totemism in Africa, and ancestry and fetish worship in Oceania. This large coffee-table format book is overflowing with illustrations depicting myths and legends, gods and goddesses from around the world. The text (written in 1965 when it was first published) is good but heavy reading. Every corner of the globe is discussed, along with all of the ancient religions, including tribal and prehistoric cultures. Egypt, the Near East, Greece, Rome, India, Persia, China and Japan get most of the attention, but there is also a great deal about northern Europe, central Asia, the Pacific region, the Americas and Africa. An inciteful and complete compendium of mythology. Topics include: Prehistory mythology, Egyptian, Assyro-Babylonian, Phoenician, Greek, Roman, Chinese, Oceanic, Ancient Persia and Japanese Mythologies.
