Index

A

Abraham, Karl 94 Adonia festival 122–3

Adonis, myth of 6–10, 20–1, 24, 26–7, 28–9, 31, 32, 34, 37, 42, 51, 57, 62–3, 67–70, 75, 78, 80, 84, 89, 102, 108, 109, 112, 120–1, 123–5, 129, 132–5

Alger, Horatio 4 animism 14–15, 42 Anouilh, Jean 79 Apatouria festival 134

Apollodorus 7–10, 20, 70, 112, 124

see also Adonis, myth of archetypal criticism 83 archetypal psychology 83 archetype 106–7, 108–12

see also Great Mother archetype, hero archetype, puer archetype

Aristophanes 135

Aristotle 43, 133 Arlow, Jacob 98–9, 100 Arnold, Matthew 16

Asdiwal, myth of 117–18, 120

B

Barber, C. L. 74

Beattie, John 1–2

Bettelheim, Bruno 99–100

Bible 5, 11–13, 16, 21–3, 32, 43,

46, 47–51, 55–6, 57, 72–3,

79, 85, 140

Bidney, David 19

Blumenberg, Hans 24

Boccacio 79

Bodkin, Maud 83

Buber, Martin 41, 42

Bultmann, Rudolf 5, 23, 43,

44, 47–53, 54, 57, 115, 118,

137

Burke, Kenneth 85

Burkert, Walter 76–8

Butler, E. M. 74

Byron, Lord 79

C

Campbell, Joseph 18, 53, 87, 89, 104–8, 112, 120, 137

Camus, Albert 43–4, 115, 118, 137

Casanova 111

Cassirer, Ernst 27, 38–40, 42, 43

Charles I, King 128 Chaucer 79

Christianity 47, 50, 51, 52, 53, 62–3, 80

Church Fathers 79 Cleisthenes 133 Cocteau, Jean 79

cognitive psychology 86, 118

Constititution of the Athenians

133–4 Cook, A. B. 72

Cornford, F. M. 34, 42, 72, 73, 80, 82

creationism, creation science 11–12, 23

Cromwell, Oliver 128 Cruise, Tom 141

D

Daedalus 112 Dante 79

Darwin, Charles 12 Dawkins, Richard 17 deme 133

demythicizing 42, 47, 50, 52

Freud, Sigmund/Freudian 75, 79, 87, 91–103, 106–7, 109–10, 115, 117, 137

Frye, Northrop 74, 81–5, 86

G

Garbot, Greta 140

Gernet, Louis 120

Gibson, Mel 140

Gide, André 79

Girard, René 74–6, 83–4, 129–31

Gnosticism 43, 47, 51–3 Goethe 79

Gould, Stephen Jay 16–17 Grail legend 74, 80

Great Mother archetype 109, 110

Guthrie, Stewart 33

H

Harrison, Jane 70–2, 73, 77, 80, 81, 83–4, 131

Heidegger, Martin 43 Helios 19, 84

hero archetype 111–12 Herodotus 132–3 Hesiod 122

Hillman, James 83 Homer/Homeric 11, 16,

44, 140

Hooke, S. H. 70–2, 73 hoplites 134

Horton, Robin 31–3, 38 Hudson, Rock 141–2 Hyman, Stanley Edgar 74

I

Icarus 57, 112

I-Thou 41–2

J

Jackson, Michael 141

Jesus 16, 89

Johnson, Aubrey 72–3

Jonas, Hans 5, 43, 44, 47, 51–3,

54, 57, 115, 118, 137

Joyce, James 79

Jung, C. G./Jungian 10, 18, 81,

82–3, 87, 91, 94, 102–12,

115, 137

K

Keats, John 79

Kennedy, Jr, John F. 57

Kluckhohn, Clyde 76

L

Law of Similarity 65, 67, 68 Lévi-Strauss, Claude/LéviStraussian 5, 10, 29–31,

85, 113–25 (chapter 7) Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien 25–7, 29,

36–42, 112, 118 Little Prince 111 Loraux, Nicole 120

M

Malinowski, Bronislaw 5, 22,

27–9, 39, 73, 126–9,

137

Marxism 128, 139

Melanion 87, 135

Melanthos 134, 135 Miller, David 83 Milton 79

Mitchum, Robert 140 moral allegorizers 19, 22, 46,

53

Mowinckel, Sigmund 72–3 Müller, Friedrich Max 20, 81 Murray, Gilbert 72, 73, 80, 81,

82, 83–4, 131 myth

and dream 91, 94, 99

and fairy tale/folk tale 5, 6, 99–100

and ideology 39, 127–9, 139

and literature 2, 43, 72, 73–4, 79–90 (chapter 5)

and magic 24, 28, 39, 55, 64–8, 71–2

and pattern 85–90, 94–8, 104–8, 120

and philosophy 14, 23, 26, 27, 36–45 (chapter 2), 50, 52, 72

and play 138–42

and psychology 91–112 (chapter 6)

and religion 11–29, 31–4, 11–35, 43, 44, 46–60 (chapter 3), 61–73, 74, 137

and ritual 8, 21, 23, 24, 55, 61–78 (chapter 4), 80–3, 87–90, 119, 126, 129, 142 and science 3, 4, 10, 11–35 (chapter 1), 36, 38–9, 41, 42, 46–53, 54–5, 56, 60, 64, 67, 71, 72, 76, 84, 94,

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Myth

113, 114, 127, 128, 137–8, 142

and society 126–35 (chapter 8)

and story/plot 4–5, 61, 62, 63, 76, 84–5, 116–17, 118–19

definition 4–6, 34

literal and symbolic meaning 2, 5, 10, 12, 19–20, 23, 46, 47–53, 54, 67–70, 84, 85, 92–4, 96–8, 102, 106–7, 110, 111, 116, 118, 119, 121, 123, 125, 137–8

nineteenth-century approach 3, 14, 17, 137

origin and function 2–3, 4, 23, 24–5, 27–8, 29, 30–1, 32, 36, 43, 50, 52, 54, 55–6, 61–3, 65–6, 71–2, 73, 74, 75, 76–7, 82–3, 86, 93–4, 97–100, 101, 107, 108–9, 114, 116–18, 125, 126–7, 137–8

subject matter 2–3, 43, 46, 50, 52, 82–3, 86, 125

twentieth-century approach 3, 14, 17, 23, 46, 137–8

twenty-first-century approach 138

myth criticism 83

myth of the frontier 4, 6 mythopoeic 38, 41–2

N

Nagy, Gregory 72 Narcissus 79

nature mythologists 70 neo-Tylorian 31

O

Odysseus 43, 107

Oedipus, myth of 5, 75, 79, 81, 83, 89, 91–4, 96, 101–2, 116–17, 129–31

Olympic Games 72

O’Neill, Eugene 79

Ovid 7–10, 20, 27, 29, 51, 70, 112, 124

see also Adonis, myth of

P

participation mystique 27, 112 Peter Pan 98, 111

Petrarch 79

Phaëthon 57 phratry 133, 134 Plato 5, 11, 16

plot see myth: and story/plot polis 125, 132–5

Popper, Karl 32, 33–4, 38 postmodernism 85, 138 Presbyterianism 64 Presley, Elvis 111 Presocratics 1, 42

Propp, Vladimir 87, 89, 120 puer archetype 108–12

R

Radin, Paul 27, 36–8

Raglan, Lord 74–6, 81, 87–90, 120, 129, 131

rags to riches myth 4, 139–40 Rank, Otto 87, 89, 94–8,

101–2, 104–7, 109, 110, 120, 129, 137

Robbins, Anthony 140 Róheim, Géza 99

Rubinstein, William 6, 34

Ryder, Winona 141

S

Saul, King 89 Schwarzkopf, Norman 53–4 Shakespeare 73, 74, 79 Shelley, Percy Bysshe 79 Sisyphus 43–4

Smith, William Robertson 61–4, 66–7, 71, 73, 75, 76

Sophocles 75, 83, 129–31 Sorel, Georges 128–9 Spenser, Edmund 79 Stoics 11

story see myth: and story/plot structure 31, 85, 113–25

(chapter 7) synchronic 118 synchronicity 115

T

Thesmophoria festival 123

transitional activity, object 139

Turner, Lana 141

Tylor, E. B./Tylorian 5, 14–35, 36–7, 40, 41, 43, 46, 47, 48, 50, 52, 53, 54, 57, 63–4, 67, 80, 84–5, 86, 87, 89, 94, 113–14, 118, 126, 127, 137–8

V

Vernant, Jean-Pierre 120 Vidal-Naquet, Pierre 120,

134–5

von Franz, Marie-Louise 108 von Hahn, Johann Georg 86,

87, 89, 95

W

Washington, George 57–60

Weisinger, Herbert 74

Weston, Jessie 74, 80, 81

Winnicott, D. W. 138–42

Wizard of Oz 108

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