Roman and European Mythologies

by Wendy Doniger

This volume begins with Roman myths and traces their influence in
early Christian and later European literature. Ninety-five entries
by leading scholars cover subjects such as sacrificial cults and rites
in pre-Roman Italy, Roman religion and its origins, the mythologies of
paganism, the survival of the ancient gods in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance, gypsy myths and rituals, romanticism and myth in Blake,
Nerval, and Balzac,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226064557
• ISBN13: 9780226064550
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"