num_pages: 271
description: This text is based on the taped and transcribed lectures of the Canadian classical scholar at the University of Guelph, Dr. John Bell (d. 1987), who used a structuralist approach into the language, psychology, and metaphysics of myth. The book does not explain the myths nor delve into the nature of myth, but rather, mines meanings from extended consideration of myth. Topics are as myths in culture, gods and humans in the world, the hero between god and human, morality, heroic identity, culture and nature, deliverance from death, and myth in relation to literature, history, geography and scientific reasoning. No subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: An Introduction to Greek Mythology: Story, Symbols, and Cultures
titlecomplete: An Introduction to Greek Mythology: Story, Symbols, and Cultures (Studies in Classics, V. 12)
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr