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“Human beings have always been mythmakers.” So begins best-selling writer Karen Armstrong’s concise yet compelling investigation into myth: what it is, how it has evolved, and why we still so desperately need it. She takes us from the Paleolithic period and the myths of the hunters right up to... read more
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Human beings have always been mythmakers.
Table of Contents edit
i. What is a myth?
ii. The Paleolithic Period: the Mythology of the Hunters (c. 20000 to 8000 BCE)
iii. The Neolithic Period: the Mythology of the Farmers (c. 8000 to 4000 BCE)
iv. The Early Civilizations (c. 4000 to 800 BCE)
v. The Axial Age (c. 800 to 200 BCE)
vi. The Post-Axial Period (c. 200 BCE to 1500 CE)
vii. The Great Western Transformation (c. 1500 to 2000)
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This book is in Canongate Myth. (publisher series)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Karen Armstrong (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Canongate
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 1841956449
Page Count: 159
Publisher: Canongate
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 1841956449
Page Count: 159
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- Dewey: 201.309
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