Title :

Nineteenth-Century French Tradition. Mythology and Linguistics

Author(s) :

Delattre, Charles [Auteur]
Histoire, Archéologie et Littérature des Mondes Anciens - UMR 8164 [HALMA]

Scientific editor(s) :

Roger Woodard

Book title :

Cambridge History of Mythology and Mythography

Publisher :

Cambridge University Press

Publication place :

Cambridge

Publication date :

2024

Keyword(s) :

Mythologie

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Etudes classiques
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

English abstract : [en]

The chapter will examine the development of the scholarly study of myth in Francophone tradition during the nineteenth century, examining its external relationship to German scholarship and the internal connections that ...
Show more >The chapter will examine the development of the scholarly study of myth in Francophone tradition during the nineteenth century, examining its external relationship to German scholarship and the internal connections that evolved between the study of myth and (other) structured systems, especially language structures. Among scholars whose work will be considered are Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (The Ancient City), Michel Jules Alfred Bréal (Hercules and Cacus), Abel Henri Joseph Bergaigne (Vedic Religion), Sylvain Lévi (The Doctrine of Sacrifice in the Brahmanas), Salomon Reinach (Cults, Myths, and Religions), Auguste Bouché-Leclercq (The History of Divination in Antiquity).Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Histoire Archéologie Littératures des Mondes Anciens (HALMA) - UMR 8164

Source :

Harvested from HAL