Greek Mythology
Subtitle: An Introduction
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: May 9, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780801853951
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Myths & mythology; Pre-Christian European & Mediterranean religions; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; Ancient Greece; Ancient - General; Antiquities & Archaeology; Folklore & Mythology - Mythology; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical
First sentence: The modern concept of myth, along with the scholarly term myth, goes back to the German philologist Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729-1812), a pioneer in the scientific study of antiquity in all its facets.