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Comparative Mythology

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by Jaan Puhvel
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jaan PuhvelPublish date:8/1/1989Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Johns Hopkins University PressISBN-13:9780801839382ISBN-10:801839386UPC:9780801839382Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient, Ancient and ClassicalSize:8.89 x 5.84 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCW710BBMS

In a magisterial work, Jaan Puhvel unravels the prehistoric Indo-Euopean origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs. Utilizing the methodologies of historical linguistics and archaeology, he reconstructs a shared religious, mytholoigcal, and cultural heritage. Separate chapters on individual traditions as well as on recurrent thees-god and warrior, king and virgin, fire and water-give life to Comparative Mythology as both a general introduction and a detaled reference.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Johns Hopkins University PressISBN-13:9780801839382ISBN-10:801839386UPC:9780801839382Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient, Ancient and ClassicalSize:8.89 x 5.84 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCW710BBMS

Jaan Puhvel is professor of classis and Indo-European studies at the Uniersvity of California, Los Angeles. Among his books is the mulyi-volume Hittite Etymological Dictionary.


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