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Index
Epilogue
List of Figures ix
Preface x
Introducing "Myth"
2 Comparative Approaches
2.2 Max Muller and Solar Mythology 19
2.3 James Frazer 30
2.4 The World According to Frazer: Problems and Presuppositions
2.5 The Urmyth: A Study in and of Comparison 57
2.6 Comparison of the Greek and Hittite Myths of the Divine Succession 67
3 Psychology
3.2 Psychoanalysis to Myth Analysis 91
3.3 Freud and Anthropology 110
3.4 Freud in his Social and Theoretical Context
4 Ritual Theories
4.2 Jane Harrison and Ritualism 145
4.3 Walter Burkert and Sociobiology 161
4.4 Burkert's Homo Necans
5 Structuralism
5.2 Syntagmatic Structuralism 189
5.3 A Critique of Syntagmatic Structuralism 201
5.4 Paradigmatic Structuralism
5.5 Mediation 226
5.6 Total Structure 234
5.7 Totalizing Structure 245
6 Ideology
6.2 Poststructuralisms, Postmodernism, and Ideology 276
6.3 Decrypting Ideology 290
6.4 An Ideological Analysis of the Myth of Heracles 301
A Little Further Reading
Bibliography
Index
1 Tree-stem diagram of Indo-European languages 18
2 Detail of Attic red-figure neck amphora by Euphronios, c.510 BC 97
3 Laconian plastic vase, late seventh century BC 99
4 Bronze breastplate from Scythian grave near Kuban, fourth century BC 100
5 Corinthian aryballos, c.590 BC 103
6 Attic cup, Vitticio Painter, School of Douris, c.470 BC 105
7 J. A. D. Ingres, Oedipus and the Sphinx (1864) 106
8 Attic red-figure lekythos, c.470 BC 108
9 R. Jakobson's phonematic pattern of English broken down into inherent distinctive features 214
10 Attic red-figure volute krater, c.450 BC 258
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