Classical Mythology Theories of Myth EXTERNALIST The mythopoeic

EXTERNALIST: The mythopoeic mind Karl Philipp Moritz (1756 -1793). Portrait by Karl Franz Jacob

EXTERNALIST: aetiology, Euhemerism, allegory Andrew Lang (1844 -1912). Friedrich Max Müller (18231900). Portrait by

EXTERNALIST: ritual Sir James George Frazer (1854 -1941). Photograph of 1933. Joseph M W

EXTERNALIST: ritual Jane Ellen Harrison (1850 -1928). Portrait by Augustus John, 1909. Cambridge, Newnham

EXTERNALIST: charter myths / functionalism Bronsilaw Malinowski (1884 -1942) with natives, Trobriand Islands, 1918.

INTERNALIST: psychoanalysis Carl Gustav Jung (1875 -1961). Mircea Eliade (1907 -1986). Joseph Campbell (1904

INTERNALIST: structuralsim Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908 -2009). Jean-Paul Vernant (1914 -2007). Walter Burkert (1931 -).

ALLEGORY Theseus and the Minotaur (detail). Master of the Campana Cassone, early XVI. Avignon,

COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel (1772 -1829). Portrait by Franz Gareis, 1801.

NARRATOLOGY Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (1895 -1970). Photograph of 1928. Propp’s 31 Narrative Functions.

MUTTERRECHT Marija Gimbutas (1921 -1994). Photograph of 1993. Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815 – 1887).

NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY Artemis of Ephesus. I CE copy of the cult statue. Ephesus

A myth is a socially powerful traditional story. Buxton, Greek Mythology A myth is

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Classical Mythology Theories of Myth

EXTERNALIST: The mythopoeic mind Karl Philipp Moritz (1756 -1793). Portrait by Karl Franz Jacob Heinrich Schumann, 1791. Halberstadt, Das Gleimhaus. Karl Otfried Müller (17971840). Bust by Alexander Tondeur, 1880. University of Göttingen.

EXTERNALIST: aetiology, Euhemerism, allegory Andrew Lang (1844 -1912). Friedrich Max Müller (18231900). Portrait by George Frederic Watts, 1894– 1895. National Portrait Gallery, London.

EXTERNALIST: ritual Sir James George Frazer (1854 -1941). Photograph of 1933. Joseph M W Turner (1775 -1851). The Golden Bough, 1834. Tate Gallery, London.

EXTERNALIST: ritual Jane Ellen Harrison (1850 -1928). Portrait by Augustus John, 1909. Cambridge, Newnham College.

EXTERNALIST: charter myths / functionalism Bronsilaw Malinowski (1884 -1942) with natives, Trobriand Islands, 1918.

INTERNALIST: psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud (18561939). Bookplate, logo of the Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1922, cartoon from the New York Review of Books

INTERNALIST: psychoanalysis Carl Gustav Jung (1875 -1961). Mircea Eliade (1907 -1986). Joseph Campbell (1904 -1987).

INTERNALIST: structuralsim Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908 -2009). Jean-Paul Vernant (1914 -2007). Walter Burkert (1931 -).

ALLEGORY Theseus and the Minotaur (detail). Master of the Campana Cassone, early XVI. Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais.

COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel (1772 -1829). Portrait by Franz Gareis, 1801. Friedrich Max Müller (18231900). Portrait by George Frederic Watts, 1894– 1895. National Portrait Gallery, London.

NARRATOLOGY Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (1895 -1970). Photograph of 1928. Propp’s 31 Narrative Functions.

MUTTERRECHT Marija Gimbutas (1921 -1994). Photograph of 1993. Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815 – 1887).

FEMINIST/QUEER STUDIES

NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY Artemis of Ephesus. I CE copy of the cult statue. Ephesus Archaeological Museum, Selçuk. Betsy Damon (1940 -). The 7, 000 Year Old Woman. New York City, 1977. Photograph by Su Friedrich.

A myth is a socially powerful traditional story. Buxton, Greek Mythology A myth is a fictitious story that illustrates the truth. Theon, Progymnasmata A definition makes a good servant but a bad master. Buxton, Imaginary Greece