Re: [tied] Reference

From: Daniel J. Milton
Message: 19250
Date: 2003-02-25

How about Jaan Puhvel's "Comparative Mythology" Johns Hopkins Univ.
Press 1987? It's been referenced a number of times on this list.
Puhvel is an Indo-Europeanist and an expert on Hittite, so his
approach should be appealing to most of us (which isn't to say he
can't be as wrong as anyone else).
Dan

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [tied] Reference
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> > Thanks! Do you know of any similar book for IE mythology, or is that
> totally out of your scope?
>
> You may try books by Dumézil (if you can read French), articles by
Edgar Polomé and relevant entries in Mallory & Adams's _Encyclopaedia
of Indo-European Culture_. I have to warn you, however, that myths are
harder to reconstruct with any confidence than features of the IE
languages. Indeed, the borderline between comparative mythology and
mythmaking is dangerously thin.
>
> Piotr