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Arising from almost 30 years' teaching experience and from a profound and vast scholarship, Puhvel's study represents a major contribution to his field. It begins with a detailed survey of Indo-European mythsthose of India, Iran, Greece, and Rome, of the Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, and Slavic... read more
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While "mythology" is the study of myth, a look at the history of mythology is a study of the study of myth, thus a sort of "metamythology" not unlike the history of science or the history of any other branch of scholarly endeavor.
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- Jaan Puhvel (Author)
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