Myth : Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures

Myth : Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures

"This book attempts to come to grips with a set of widely ranging but connected problems concerning myths: their relation to folktales on the one hand, to rituals on the other; the validity and scope of the structuralist theory of myth; the range of possible mythical functions; the effects of d...

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Auteur principal: Kirk, Geoffrey Stephen, 1921-2003
Format: Livre papier
Langue:Anglais
Publié: Cambridge : Berkeley ; Los Angeles : Cambridge University Press ; University of California Press C 1970.
Collection:Sather Classical Lectures Volume Forty
Sujets:
Lévi-Strauss, Claude (1908-2009) > Mythologiques
Mythe > Influence grecque > Études comparatives
Mythe > Grèce > Jusqu'à 395 > Anthropologie
Mythe > Mésopotamie > Anthropologie
Mythe > Rites et cérémonies
Mythologie comparée
Mythologie > Anthropologie
Mythologie assyro-babylonienne > Anthropologie
Mythologie grecque > Anthropologie
Note: Autres tirages : 1971, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1986
Autres localisations: Voir dans le Sudoc
Variante du titre:Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures
Table des matières:
  • Preface.
  • Abbreviations.
  • I - MYTH, RITUAL AND FOLKTALE.
  • 1: Introductory.
  • 2: Myth, religion and ritual.
  • 3: The relation of myths to folktales.
  • II - LÉVI-STRAUSS AND THE STRUCTURAL APPROACH.
  • 1: An outline of the theory with some preliminary questions.
  • 2: A relatively simple example: the tale of Asdiwal.
  • 3: The South American material.
  • 4: Geriguiaguiatugo and related myths.
  • 5: Some desirable modifications.
  • 6: The limits of the structural approach.
  • III - THE NATURE OF MYTHS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA.
  • 1: Introduction.
  • 2: Irrigation and fertility.
  • 3: Three myths of the underworld.
  • 4: The nature of Sumerian myths.
  • 5: Akkadian myths.
  • IV - NATURE AND CULTURE: GILGAMESH, CENTAURS AND CYCLOPES.
  • 1: Gilgamesh.
  • 2: The Centaurs.
  • 3: The Cyclopes.
  • V - THE QUALITIES OF GREEK MYTHS.
  • 1: The thematic simplicity of the myths.
  • 2: Basic concerns underlying the conventional structure.
  • 3: A comparison with Germanic, Egyptian and Hindu mythology.
  • 4: The myths of Western Asia: Hurrian Kumarbi and Greek Kronos.
  • 5: The myths of Western Asia: Hittite and Canaanite.
  • 6: Greek and Asiatic myths: a summary.
  • 7: Mythical speculation in Hesiod.
  • 8: Mythical and rational thought.
  • VI - TALES, DREAMS, SYMBOLS: TOWARDS A FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF MYTHS.
  • 1: A suggested typology of functions.
  • 2: Theories of mythical expression: Cassirer and others.
  • 3: Fantasy and dreams.
  • 4: Archetypes and symbols.
  • 5: Possibilities of origin.
  • INDEX

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