Prolegomena zu einer Wissenschaftlichen Mythologie, Karl Otfried Muller 1825

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Prolegomena zu einer Wissenschaftlichen Mythologie, Karl Otfried Muller 1825:
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Prolegomena zu einer Wissenschaflichen Mythologie, KarlOtfried Muller is the first edition of one of the most interesting books on therelation between myth and culture as seen aside from what has been written byscholars and poets of the time.

Karl Otfried Muller was a professor of Archeology and History of Ancient Art at the University of Gottingen from 1819 to 1839. He started traveling to Greece after that and did excavations in Greece. Muller’s Prolegomena zu einer wissenschaftlichen Mythologie (1825), in which he avoided the views of G. F. Creuzer and Christian August Lobeck, prepared the way for the scientific investigation of myths. Working without the benefit of modern understanding of psychology, he offered steps towards the \"internal idea\" of myth and presented techniques for determining the age of a mythus from the mentions of it in literary sources and a notable chapter on how to separate the mythus from the modifications of poets and prose writers, and examined the relations that Homer and Hesiod bore to their traditions, all of this before the supportive contributions of modern archaeology, philological analysis, or the understanding of oral transmission of myth, a remarkable achievement.

The book is in very good condition for being almost 200years old: the binding is sound though somewhat bumped at the corners and the pages are intact, though slightly brownwith some foxing. Some of the pages are still uncut, so the book was not readmuch. There is no odor. 454 pages, it is published by Vandenhoeck andRuprecht in Gottingen 1825.