Index
Abraham, Karl 29, 46, 69, 75–76
Achilles 119
Adler, Alfred, Adlerian 31, 48, 125
Adonis 88–93
Alexander the Great 109
animism 142–143
Aphrodite 92–93
archetype 21–22, 71, 82, 85, 90–93
argument from design 187–201
Barber, C. L. 18
Barber, Elizabeth and Paul 140, 150
Barthes, Roland 22
Berger, Peter 39
Berkeley, George 197
Bettelheim, Bruno 33
Bidney, David 145
Bogarde, Dirk 181
Bond, James 108
Bovary, Emma 107
Bultmann, Rudolf 15–16, 88, 145, 178, 185
Butler, E. M. 18
Caesar, Julius 103
Campbell, Joseph 20, 46, 82–87, 113, 144, 169, 173, 176
Camus, Albert 194
Carlyle, Thomas 100–106
Cassirer, Ernst 14–15, 148, 172–173
Childe Harold 107
Churchland, Patricia and Paul 197
comparative method 3–8
Cornford, F. M. 18, 110, 151, 157, 158
creation myths 20–21
Cruise, Tom 182
Cyrus 51
Darwin, Charles 139, 188, 189–190, 192–202
Davidson, Donald 197
Dawkins, Richard 144, 192, 194–195, 201, 204–206
definition of myth 10
Democritus 192
de Santillana, Giorgio 140, 150
Descartes, René 196
Detienne, Marcel 23
Diana, Princess 182
DiCaprio, Leonardo 181
Dilthey, Wilheim 2
Douglas, Michael 180
Downey, Robert, Jr. 182
Draper, John 142
dreams and myth 81–82
Dundes, Alan 35–36
Dupre, John 195
Eliade, Mircea 16, 88, 144, 169, 173, 175–176, 178, 185
Ellwood, Robert ch. 10 passim
Engnell, Ivan 127–128
Erikson, Erik 49
fairy tales and myth 20, 33–35, 87
Faust legend 18
Fergusson, Francis 18
Frazer, J. G. 5, 12, 13, 16, 17–18, 23–24, 27, 36, 39, 68, 70–72, 88–93, 114, 117, 118, 125–129, 146–150, 159, 160, 163–165, 171–172, 178–179, 184–185, 195
Freud, Sigmund 19–20, 23, ch. 2 passim, ch. 3 passim, ch. 4 passim, ch. 5 passim, 114–117, 118, 126, 159, 178, 186
Frye, Northrop 18
Gaia ch. 12 passim
Geertz, Clifford 2–4
Ghiselin, Michael 201
Gibson, Mel 180
Gimpel the Fool 107
Gnosticism 16, 67, 174, 175, 176
Golding, William 202
Gorgias 155–156
Gould, Stephen Jay 12, 143–144
Grail legend 18
Great Man view of history 100–105
Grimm brothers 20
Hamlet 51
Hamlin, Harry 181–182
Harrison, Jane 18
Hegel, G. W. F. 103
Heidegger, Martin 15
Hermetic Corpus 81
hero myths 20, 21, 23–24, 30–35, 36–37, 39, 41n10, 49–50, 52–58, 72, 76–79, 83–87, 92, ch. 6 passim, ch. 7 passim, 172
Hesiod 154–155, 186, 187–192, 202
Hitler, Adolf 104
Hobbes, Thomas 197
Hollywood stars 40, ch. 11 passim, 207
Holmes, Sherlock 108
Homans, George 197
Homer 10, 12, 143, 154–155, 179, 187
Hook, Sidney 103–104
Hunter, Tab 182
Hutton, James 202
Huxley, T. H. 196
Hyman, Stanley Edgar 18
Jack and the Beanstalk 34–35
Jackson, Michael 181
Johnson, Samuel 100
Jonas, Hans 15, 16, 88, 178, 185
Jung, C. G., Jungian 19–22, 26–27, 36–37, ch. 4 passim, ch. 5 passim, 110, 113, 144, 159, 173, 174–176, 178, 186
Kaikhosrav 51
Kanzer, Mark 32
King Arthur 109
kingship 17–18
Kluckhohn, Clyde 18
Knox, Bernard 83
Knox, John 100
Kramer, Samuel Noah 141
Kuhn, Adalbert 159
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste 192
Ledger, Heath 181
Leibniz, Gottfried 196
Lenin, Vladimir 104
Lévi-Strauss, Claude 13–14, 22–23, 149–150, 170–171
Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien 12–13, 14, 146–148, 149, 160–162, 163, 164, 171, 172
Lewontin, Richard 206
Lincoln, Bruce ch. 9 passim, 169
Loman, Willy 107
Louis XVI, King 101
Lyell, Charles 139
Macpherson, James 159
magic 13, 89–90, 163, 171, 172
Mahomet (Muhammed) 100
Malinowski, Bronislaw 13, 23, 32, 88, 148–149, 156–157, 172, 175, 178, 185
Mallet, Paul Henri 159
Marlowe, Christopher 67
Mauss, Marcel 159
Mayr, Ernst 193–194
Midgley, Mary 203–204
Milton, John 60–68
Mirabeau, Comte de 101
Mitchum, Robert 180
modernity and myth 11–16, 23, 142, 173–176
Müller, Friedrich Max 145, 159, 166–167
Murray, Gilbert 18
natural selection 192–195, 199–201
nature mythologists 68–73
Neleus and Pelias 51
Neumann, Erich 20–21
Nietzsche, Friedrich 159, 167, 169
Noll, Richard 174
Odysseus 116
Oedipus, Oedipal 27–30, 31, 33–34, 40n3, ch. 3 passim, 75–79, 81, 82–85, 91, 107, 108, 115–116, 118, 125
origin 1
Paley, William 188–192, 195, 198–200
Persephone 92
Plato 10–11, 12, 143, 154–156, 187
play and myth 37–38
Popper, Karl 14, 150–151, 157–158
Portnoy, Alexander 107
Prometheus 34–35
Propp, Vladimir 22
psychology and myth ch. 2 passim
Raglan, Lord 18, 23, 73n2, 109–110, 114, 117–119, 125–129, 172
rags to riches myth 39–40
Rank, Otto 19, 20, 22, 23, 29–35, 41n9, ch. 3 passim, 69–70, 75–79, 113–117, 118–125
religion and myth 15–16, 26–27, 67–68, 142–146, 147, 151, 160, 162, 185, 187
Rider, Winona 182
ritual and myth 17–19, 23–24, 117–119, 127–128, 162, 165
Robbins, Anthony 39
Róheim, Géza 33–35, 41n6, 83–85
Romulus and Remus 51
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 100
Rudnytsky, Peter 52–53
Ruse, Michael 198–199, 201, 206
Ryle, Gilbert 197
Sachs, Hanns 47
Samuel 119
Sartre, Jean-Paul 60n20, 75, 194
Saul, King 119–129
Schleiermacher, Friedrich 166
Schwarzkopf, Norman 16
science and myth 10–14, 24, 26–27, 68, 88, 127, ch. 8 passim, 157–158, 160–161, 162–163, 164, 165, 169–171, 178–179, 184–185, ch. 12 passim
secular myths 68
Shakespeare, William 18, 100, 106
Sisyphus 107
Smith, William Robertson 17, 18, 24, 159, 160, 165
Sober, Elliot 191–192
Sophists 155–156
Spencer, Herbert 102
Spider Man 181
structure of myth 22–23
subject matter of myth 1
teleology 196–204
theories of myth 1–9
Theseus 109
Thucydides 110
Trakhan 51
transmission of myths 1–2
Turner, Lana 180
Tylor, E. B. 11–12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 27, 36, 68, 70–72, 88, 142–151, 159, 160–163, 165–166, 170–171, 175, 178–179, 184–185, 195–196
uroboric state 20
Van Gennep, Arnold 159
Vernant, Jean-Pierre 22–23
Veyne, Paul 109
Vidal-Naquet, Pierre 23
Vladimir and Estragon 107
Von Franz, Marie-Louise 20–21, 90
Von Hahn, Johann Georg 76