The Creation of Mythology
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986. Soft cover. 8vo. Fine. Item #006519
Tranlated by Margaret Cook. Originally published as L'invention de la Mythologie. Soft cover. xii, 179 pp. Spine sunned. Ink ownership inscription to half-title, some ink underlining and notes to interior. Int his fresh approach to the question of the origins of mythology in ancient Greece, Marcel Detienne holds that the poetry of mythology requires a life of its own beyond the realm of the merely intellectual. Detienne's own unusual combination of scholarliness and imagination demonstrates precisely the kind of irony implied in the central thesis of The Creation of Mythology, the thesis that mythology was invented precisely at the moment when myth became problematic - when it was no longer "lived" by the Greeks. In this sensitive English translation, The Creation of Mythology speaks to the interests of not only classicists but also historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and philosophers.
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