Throughout history civilizations around the world have made their various myths, mystical experiences, and rituals part of their cosmologies. Introduction to My

This Very Short Introduction explores different approaches to myth from several disciplines, including science, religion, philosophy, literature, and psychology

Where do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean? In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches used to

When this book first appeared (1886), the philological school of interpretation of religion and myth, being then still powerful in England, was criticised and o