Book

Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures

A comparative analysis of myth across ancient and other cultures, critiquing universalizing myth-and-ritual theories and the separability of myth from rite.

Author: G. S. Kirk
Type: Book
Written: 1970
Edition: 1970
Publisher: University of California Press (Berkeley and Los Angeles) and Cambridge University Press; Sather Classical Lectures, Volume 40
Language: English
Tradition: Comparative
Identifiers: ISBN9780520016514 (cloth, 1970); 9780520023895 (paperback, 1973); 9780521098021 (Cambridge UP reprint), OCLC968393668