classical mythology theories of myth. karl philipp moritz (1756-1793). portrait by karl franz jacob...
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Classical MythologyTheories of Myth
Karl Philipp Moritz (1756-1793). Portrait by Karl Franz Jacob Heinrich Schumann, 1791. Halberstadt, Das Gleimhaus.
Karl Otfried Müller (1797-1840). Bust by Alexander Tondeur, 1880. University of Göttingen.
EXTERNALIST: The mythopoeic mind
Andrew Lang (1844-1912).Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900). Portrait by George Frederic Watts, 1894–1895. National Portrait Gallery, London.
EXTERNALIST: aetiology, Euhemerism, allegory
Joseph M W Turner (1775-1851). The Golden Bough, 1834. Tate Gallery, London.
Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941). Photograph of 1933.
EXTERNALIST: ritual
Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928). Portrait by Augustus John, 1909. Cambridge, Newnham College.
EXTERNALIST: ritual
Bronsilaw Malinowski (1884-1942) with natives, Trobriand Islands, 1918.
EXTERNALIST: charter myths / functionalism
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Bookplate, logo of the Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1922, cartoon from the New York Review of Books
INTERNALIST: psychoanalysis
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961). Mircea Eliade (1907-1986).Joseph Campbell (1904-1987).
INTERNALIST: psychoanalysis
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009).
Jean-Paul Vernant (1914-2007).
Walter Burkert (1931-).
INTERNALIST: structuralsim
Theseus and the Minotaur (detail). Master of the Campana Cassone, early XVI. Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais.
ALLEGORY
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829). Portrait by Franz Gareis, 1801.
Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900). Portrait by George Frederic Watts, 1894–1895. National Portrait Gallery, London.
COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY
Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (1895-1970). Photograph of 1928.
Propp’s 31 Narrative Functions.
NARRATOLOGY
Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815 – 1887).
Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994). Photograph of 1993.
MUTTERRECHT
FEMINIST/QUEER STUDIES
Betsy Damon (1940-). The 7,000 Year Old Woman. New York City, 1977. Photograph by Su Friedrich.
Artemis of Ephesus. I CE copy of the cult statue. Ephesus Archaeological Museum,
Selçuk.
NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY
A myth is a socially powerful traditional story.Buxton, Greek Mythology
A definition makes a good servant but a bad master.Buxton, Imaginary Greece
A myth is a fictitious story that illustrates the truth.Theon, Progymnasmata