{"product_id":"roman-and-european-mythologies","title":"Roman and European Mythologies","description":"This volume begins with Roman myths and traces their influence in\u003cbr\u003e early Christian and later European literature. Ninety-five entries\u003cbr\u003e by leading scholars cover subjects such as sacrificial cults and rites\u003cbr\u003e in pre-Roman Italy, Roman religion and its origins, the mythologies of\u003cbr\u003e paganism, the survival of the ancient gods in the Middle Ages and the\u003cbr\u003e Renaissance, gypsy myths and rituals, romanticism and myth in Blake,\u003cbr\u003e Nerval, and Balzac, and myth in twentieth-century English literature.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMythologies\u003c\/i\u003e offers illuminating examples of the workings of\u003cbr\u003e myth in the structure of societies past and present—how we create,\u003cbr\u003e use, and are guided by systems of myth to answer fundamental questions\u003cbr\u003e about ourselves and our world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Many of the sections in \u003ci\u003eMythologies,\u003c\/i\u003e originally published as a\u003cbr\u003e two-volume cloth set, will soon be available in four paperback volumes\u003cbr\u003e (two are announced here; two more are scheduled for 1993). These\u003cbr\u003e volumes will reproduce the articles, introductory essays, and\u003cbr\u003e illustrations as they appeared in the full \u003ci\u003eMythologies\u003c\/i\u003e set.","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48802640363775,"sku":"*R0137595*","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/5550\/7364\/files\/12873783482268.jpg?v=1783439820","url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/roman-and-european-mythologies","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}