Tag Archives: George Dumézil
The Myths of the Gods: Structures in Irish Mythology
Author: Alan Ward Publisher: CreateSpace Published: March 21st 2011 ISBN-13: 9781460984604 Synopsis: An application of Georges Dumézil’s tripartite diagnostic for Indo-European to the primary sources of Irish mythology (medieval manuscripts but also folklore collected in the 20th century). Comparison is made not only with the structures and remains of other traditions but also with structures …
The New Comparative Mythology: An Anthropological Assessment of the Theories of George Dumézil By C. Scott Littleton
This edition of the book was printed in 1982 so it is considerably older than most of the books I have read on the theories of myth. It is mainly concerned with George Dumézil’s theories and the author tells us that he is not an Indo-Europeanist and is looking at these theories from the point …
