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Research activity in Indo-European comparative mythology has been regularly pursued at the University of California, Los Angeles, since the academic year 1959-60, when the Seminar in Indo-European Mythology was held for the first time. Other organizational milestones have been the creation of the Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology in 1961 and of the Section of Indo-European Studies as an autonomous part of the Department of Classics in 1964. In a purely historical sense, the activity has centered on discovering and understanding the mythic, religious, social, and legal underpinnings of the ancient Indo-European-speaking continuum in terms of their oldest or most archaic manifestations. In a comparativistic vein, these materials have been used as starting points for prehistoric reconstruction. The theoretical viability of such attempts is enhanced by the renascence of the discipline of Indo-European comparative mythology during the past several decades through the efforts of such scholars as Georges Dumézil, Jan de Vries, Stig Wikander, and others. Thereby the long lacuna that ensued upon the largely abortive theoretical beginnings by F. Max Müller, Adalbert

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Author

Jaan Puhvel; University of California, Los Angeles. Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

1970

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520015876

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion