The Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology

The Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology (1996, Chancellor Press, suuri kovakantinen kirja kansipapereilla, Kunto: K3)

Introduction by Robert Graves.

”Here, in all their wonder and splendour, are the Mythologies of Mankind – from pre-Biblical Egypt and pre-Homeric Greece to the farthest reaches of Africa, the Orient, the Pacific, and the Americas – all gathered in one mammoth volume of unprecedented scope and beauty, and illustrated with an incomparable assemblage of authentic paintings, sculpture, symbols, idols, ritual, and sacrifical objects, many rarely seen by modern Western eyes. This monumental work is the first complete encyclopedia of world mythology. Originally published in France by the famous house of Larousse, it contains of course all the well-loved myths of Classical Antiquity. But more than half the book is devoted to the strange and unfamiliar mythologies of civilisations other than our own: from Peru to Persia, from Tahiti to Togoland.”

Hakusanat: mytologia, antiikki, kreikka, rooma, philosophy, homeros, rituaalit, symbolit