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Alcmene
Amulius
Archetype
Areoi
Astyages
Attis
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Biography
Castor and Pollux
Castration
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Combatant
Consciousness
Consummation
Counter-Reformation
Creation myth
Cuckold
Culture hero
Dhritarashtra
Dirce
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Etymology
Eunuch
Fairy tale
Flood myth
Great King
Greek mythology
Gwydion
Herder
Hero Tales
Herodotus
Historicity
Historicity of Jesus
Incest
Justin Martyr
Laius
Legend
Legendary creature
Mendicant
Menelaus
Morganatic marriage
Mr.
Myth
Myth and ritual
Mythological Cycle
Mythology
Narrative
Neurosis
Numitor
Oedipus complex
Our Hero
Parricide
Persecution
Priam
Proetus
Pseudohistory
Religion
Rite
Romulus and Remus
Telephus
Teuthras
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Interpretation of Dreams
The Other Hand
The Persecutor
The Persians
Theory
Trojan War
V.
Warfare
Zoroaster
Product details
- ISBN 9780691020624
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Nov 1990
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Quest of the Hero makes available for a new generation of readers two key works on hero myths: Otto Rank's Myth of the Birth of the Hero and the central section of Lord Raglan's The Hero. Amplifying these is Alan Dundes's fascinating contemporary inquiry, "The Hero Pattern and the Life of Jesus." Examined here are the patterns found in the lore surrounding historical or legendary figures like Gilgamesh, Moses, David, Oedipus, Odysseus, Perseus, Heracles, Aeneas, Romulus, Siegfried, Lohengrin, Arthur, and Buddha. Rank's monograph remains the classic application of Freudian theory to hero myths. In The Hero the noted English ethnologist Raglan singles out the myth-ritualist pattern in James Frazer's many-sided Golden Bough and applies that pattern to hero myths. Dundes, the eminent folklorist at the University of California at Berkeley, applies the theories of Rank, Raglan, and others to the case of Jesus. In his introduction to this selection from Rank, Raglan, and Dundes, Robert Segal, author of the major study of Joseph Campbell, charts the history of theorizing about hero myths and compares the approaches of Rank, Raglan, Dundes, and Campbell.
