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A Short History of Myth

ISBN: 9781841958002 | 184195800X
Edition: Reprint
Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: Canongate U.S.
Pub. Date: 10/9/2006

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SummaryTable of Contents
This brilliant, readable synthesis of the history of mythology and the function it serves to humanity is the launch title of the groundbreaking publishing event, "The Myths." "Human beings have always been mythmakers." So begins Karen Armstrong's concise yet compelling investigation into myth: what it is, how it has evolved, and why we still so desperately need it. She takes us from the Paleolithic period and the myths of the hunters right up to the "Great Western Transformation" of the last five hundred years and the discrediting of myth by sc... MORE
What is a Myth?
1(11)
The Palaeolithic Period: The Mythology of the Hunters (c. 20000 to 8000 BCE)
12(29)
The Neolithic ... MORE
41(17)
The Early Civilisations (c. 4000 to 800 BCE)
58(21)
The Axial Age (c. 800 to 200 BCE)
79(25)
The Post-Axial Period (c. 200 BCE to c. 1500 CE)
104(15)
The Great Western Transformation (c. 1500 to 2000)
119(32)
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