The Mythology Of All Races - Softcover

George Foot Moore; John Arnott Macculloch; Louis Herbert Gray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461652897 ISBN 13: 9780461652895

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

The Mythology Of All Races by George Foot Moore; John Arnott Macculloch; Louis Herbert Gray is a comprehensive scholarly synthesis of ancient mythologies in the Greek, Roman, and Italic world. The volume treats myths as vehicles of religious thought, emphasizing their role as expressive records of early worldviews—where myth intersects with science, culture, and ritual. It outlines major interpretive methods (natural, philological, euhemeristic, allegorical, poetical, ritual, anthropological) and foregrounds how art and literature shape myth. The book situates the Greek worldview as a shift from animistic nature-worship to personal deities, while noting myths’ ongoing relevance to ethics, politics, and urban life. Core material surveys myth cycles: Creation, the Peloponnesian myths (Arkadia, Lakonia, Argos, Corinth), the Northern Mainland myths (Boeotia, Euboea), and foundational legends of Thebes and the Kadmian line; as well as the great Trojan and Argonaut cycles, and the underworld. It also presents Part III on Mythology of Ancient Italy, examining Italic numina, Roman reinterpretations of Greek deities, and Rome’s legendary founding, Aeneas, and Romulus/Remus. The text includes plates and appendices on survivals in modern belief and ritual, offering a cross-cultural map of myth and cult.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461652897
• ISBN 13: 9780461652895
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 678