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Stories centuries in the making, and many centuries worth of stories, are an integral part of modern society. Whether modern or ancient, every culture has its myths. Mythology forms our understanding of our origin, history, and traditions. They tell of our heroes and deities. Myths are vehicles for understanding religion, for learning language, and for understanding society, but they can often be difficult to understand and confusing. The Handy Mythology Answer Book examines and explains, in plain English, numerous myths and mythology.
From the ancient Greek and Roman to Egypt and Babylon, from Native North American Indian to Celtic, Middle Eastern, Indian, Asian, African, and the lesser known myths from around the world, The Handy Mythology Answer Book has them covered. Whether it is the modern retelling of a classic myth or an ancient story about a Norse god, this helpful resource demystifies the myth, looks at different archetypes and motifs,...
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David Leeming (photo by Leopold Quarles)
David Leeming received his B.A. in English from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University. He spent eight years teaching at Robert College in Istanbul and twenty-six years at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, where he is an emeritus professor of English and Comparative Literature. He has traveled widely, studying world myths and traditions. His books include a biography of James Baldwin and many books on mythology, including Myth: A Biography of Belief (Oxford, 2002), Jealous Gods and Chosen People: The Mythology of the Middle East (Oxford 2004), The Oxford Companion to World Mythology (Oxford, 2005), Creation Myths of the World (ABC-CLIO, 2010), Medusa: In the Mirror of Time (Reaktion, 2013), and a revised edition of The World of Myth (Oxford, 2014). He is also editor in chief of The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion (second edition, Springer, 2014).
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Leeming, David Adams, 1937
The handy mythology answer book / by David A. Leeming Ph.D.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-57859-475-7 (paperback)
1. MythologyMiscellanea. I. Title.
BL312.L435 2014
201.3dc23 2014013298
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In common usage mythology used to mean Greek and Roman mythology with perhaps a few Norse stories of Thor and Odin thrown in. The myths that made up this mythology had been sufficiently cleaned up by Edith Hamilton and others to make them palatable for even the very young. The stories were fascinating, even if they were obviously untrue. In the western world they formed an important part of classical education, in which schoolboys, and a few schoolgirls, of a certain class learned their Greek and Latin in part by reading Homer, Virgil, and even some sanitized Ovid. The myths themselves were a vehicle for the learning of language, for an appreciation of literature, and perhaps for some slight understanding of pagan culture.
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