first edition Hard Cover
1844 · London / Edinburgh
by Muller, C.O. [Karl Otfried]; Leitch, John
London / Edinburgh: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans / William Tait, 1844. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First English translation of the work first published in 1825 as Prolegomena zu einer wissenschaftlichen Mythologie. Boards rubbed. 1844 Hard Cover. xii, 353 pp. 8vo. Muller pioneered the modern study of Greek mythology, and here provides a method by which others can categorize and analyze historical myths, while also offering commentary on other scholarly works on the topic, and placing such authors as Homer and Hesiod in context with this system. (Inventory #: 2305159)