The Oxford Companion to World Mythology - Image 1

£42.00

Oxford University Press The Oxford Companion to World Mythology

Name: The Oxford Companion to World Mythology
Brand: Oxford University Press
Price: 42.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

75 halftones, 8 pp colour plates

Encyclopaedias

Same price for 11 weeks. Today is much like next week.

£42 for 77 days straight · last change was Oct 2025

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 583 days • 583 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 583 days • 5 price ranges

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common range: £39-45 (323 days, 55.4%)

Price range: £20 - £52

Price levels: 5 price ranges over 583 days

Description

Cave paintings at Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain, fraught with expression thousands of years later; point to an early human desire to form a cultural identity. In the Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming explores the role of mythology, or myth-logic, in history and determines that the dreams of specific cultures add up to a larger collective story of humanity. Stopping short of attempting to be all-inclusive, this fascinating volume will nonetheless be comprehensive, opening with an introduction exploring the nature and dimensions of myth and proposing a definition as a universal language. Briefly dipping into the ways our understanding of myth has changed from Aristotle and Plato to modern scholars such as Joseph Campbell, the introduction loosely places the concept in its present context and precedes articles on influential mythologists and mythological approaches that appear later in the Companion. The main body of Leeming's work consists of A-Z entries covering all aspects of mythology, including substantial essays on the world's major mythological traditions (Greek, Native American, Indian, Japanese, Sumerian, Egyptian), mythological types and motifs (Descent to the Underworld, the Hero, the Trickster, Creation, the Quest), mythological figures (Odysseus, Zeus, Osiris, Spider Woman, and Inanna) as well as numerous interrelated subjects such as fairy tales and legends. The Companion also locates myth in our lives today, relating it to language patterns, psychology, religion, politics, art, and gender attitudes. Many of the better-known and more significant myths are vividly retold in this volume that will be illustrated with maps, more than 70 black and white images, and eight pages of color highlighting the central role art has often played in the transmission and perpetuation of myth. Following the entries, a rich section of appendices will include family trees of the major pantheons, equivalency charts for the gods of Greece and Rome, Babylon and Sumer, as well as other traditions, an extensive bibliography, and an index.

Key Features

New

Mint Condition

Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon

Guaranteed packaging

No quibbles returns

Product Specifications

Brand: Oxford University Press
Model: 75 halftones, 8 pp colour plates
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 0195156692
Category: Books > Subjects > Mind, Body & Spirit > Mythology > Encyclopaedias
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 22 December 2005
Listed Since: 06 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Oxford University Press The Oxford Companion to World Mythology

Same price for 11 weeks. Today is much like next week.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths

Mythology for Storytellers

Classical Mythology, International Edition

Mythologica: An encyclopedia of gods, monsters and mortals from ancient Greece (Ancient Lore)

Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend

The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1900s

Myth and Method (Studies in Religion & Culture)

Host or Parasite?: Mythographers and their Contemporaries in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods: 92 (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 92)

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography (OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES)

Mythologies 2 V Set (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)

Classical Mythology

Myth Analyzed (Theorists of Myth)

Foundation Myths in Ancient Societies: Dialogues and Discourses

Children's Books on Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology: An Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature)

Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960, The

The Vatican Mythographers (Medieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies)

Companion to Literary Myths, Heroes and Archetypes (Routledge Revivals)

Interpreting the Images of Greek Myths: An Introduction

Myth Analyzed (Theorists of Myth)

Exploring Greek Myth

The Anatomy of Myth: The Art of Interpretation from the Presocratics to the Church Fathers

The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Partially based on H.J. Rose’s A Handbook of Greek Mythology

Mythos: Greek Myths Retold: 1 (Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths, 1)

Ecrire la mythologie: D'Homère à Marguerite Yourcenar