The Golden Bough
The Golden Bough
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USDThis work by Sir James Frazer (1854–1941) is widely considered to be one of the most important early texts in the fields of psychology and anthropology. At the same time, by applying modern methods of comparative ethnography to the classical world, and revealing the superstition and irrationality beneath the surface of the classical culture which had for so long been a model for Western civilisation, it was extremely controversial. Frazer was greatly influenced by E. B. Tylor's Primitive Culture (also reissued in this series), and by the work of the biblical scholar William Robertson Smith, to whom the first edition is dedicated. The twelve-volume third edition, reissued here, was greatly revised and enlarged, and published between 1911 and 1915; the two-volume first edition (1890) is also available in this series. Volume 5 (1914) considers the oriental roots of the Greek myths of Adonis and Attis.
Product details
April 2012Paperback
9781108047340
344 pages
216 × 140 × 20 mm
0.44kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the third edition
- Book I. Adonis:
- 1. The myth of Adonis
- 2. Adonis in Syria
- 3. Adonis in Cyprus
- 4. Sacred men and women
- 5. The burning of Melcarth
- 6. The burning of Sandan
- 7. Sardanapalus and Hercules
- 8. Volcanic religion
- 9. The ritual of Adonis
- 10. The Gardens of Adonis
- Book II. Attis:
- 1. The myth and ritual of Attis
- 2. Attis as a god of vegetation
- 3. Attis as the father god
- 4. Human representatives of Attis
- 5. The hanged god
- 6. Oriental religions in the West
- 7. Hyacinth.
