Classical Mythology Theories of Myth. Karl Philipp Moritz (1756-1793). Portrait by Karl Franz Jacob Heinrich Schumann, 1791. Halberstadt, Das Gleimhaus.

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Classical Mythology Theories of Myth

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

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

Joseph M W Turner ( ). The Golden Bough, Tate Gallery, London. Sir James George Frazer ( ). Photograph of EXTERNALIST: ritual

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

Bronsilaw Malinowski ( ) with natives, Trobriand Islands, EXTERNALIST: charter myths / functionalism

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

Carl Gustav Jung ( ).Mircea Eliade ( ). Joseph Campbell ( ). INTERNALIST: psychoanalysis

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

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

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

Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp ( ). Photograph of Propp’s 31 Narrative Functions. NARRATOLOGY

Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815 – 1887). Marija Gimbutas ( ). Photograph of MUTTERRECHT

FEMINIST/QUEER STUDIES

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

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