Introduction to Mythology

Eva M. Thury is Associate Professor of English at Drexel University.Margaret K. Devinney is Associate Professor Emerita of German at Temple University.

• Preface Timeline PART I. INTRODUCTION TO STUDYING MYTH1. What Is Myth?2. Ways of Understanding MythPART 2. MYTHS OF CREATION AND DESTRUCTION 2A. Creation 3. Greece: Hesiod4. Rome: Ovid (Creation)5. The Bible: Genesis (Creation)6. Mesopotamia: Enuma Elish 7. Icelandic/Norse: Prose Edda (Creation)8. North America: Stories from the Zuni, Hopi, and Navajo (Southwest); and from the Iroquois League (Northeastern Woodlands)9. Africa: Uganda and Nigeria10. China: Nü Kwa, Kuan Yin, and Monkey11. Mesoamerica: Popol Vuh 2B. Destruction 12. Rome: Ovid (Flood)13. The Bible: Genesis (Flood)14. Icelandic/Norse: Prose Edda (Ragnarok)PART 3. HEROES AND TRICKSTERS 15. Theory: Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Dave Whomsley 16. Mesopotamia: The Epic of Gilgamesh 17. Applying Theory: A Lévi-Straussian Analysis of the Epic of Gilgamesh, G. S. Kirk 18. India: The Ramayana 19. Icelandic/Norse: Prose Edda (Heroes)20. Arthurian Legend: The Holy Grail, Donna Lynne Rondolone 21. Africa: The Mwindo Epic22. Greece: Oedipus the King , Sophocles23. Theory: The Structural Study of Myth, Claude Lévi-Strauss 24. North America: Raven25. African and African-American Trickster Stories26. Greece: Prometheus27. Applying Theory: Different Versions of MythsPART 4. RITUAL AND MYTH 28. Theory: The Forest of Symbols, Victor Turner 29. Greece: Demeter and Persephone30. Egypt: Isis and Osiris31. Applying Theory: Meals in the Bible, Mary Douglas 32. Icelandic/Norse: The Rituals of Iceland, H.R. Ellis Davidson 33. Greece: Heracles and DionysusPART 5. DREAMS AND MYTH 34. Theory: Man and His Symbols, C.G. Jung 35. Applying Theory: How to Perform a Jungian AnalysisPART 6. FOLKTALE AND MYTH 36. Theory: The Morphology of the Folktale, Vladimir Propp 37. Applying Theory: A Proppian Analysis of The Wizard of Oz 38. Germany: Grimms' Household Tales 39. Rome: "Cupid and Psyche," Apuleius 40. Applying Theory: Highlighting Different Aspects of the Same Tale Using Multiple AnalysesPART 7. CONTEMPORARY MYTH 41. Daniel Boone: Building the Myth around the Man, Richard Slotkin 42. Harry Potter: A Rankian Analysis of the Hero of Hogwarts, M. Katherine Grimes 43. "Dark of the World, Shine on Us": Ryan Coogler's Black Panther George Faithful PART 8. LITERATURE AND MYTH 44. Poetry and Myth45. The Half-God of Rainfall: Classical and African Myth in an Epic Poem Inua Ellams46. "Yellow Woman": Native-American Oral Myth in a Contemporary Context Leslie Marmon Silko 47. Narrative and MythGlossary of Gods, Heroes, and Antiheroes Additional Works Cited Credits Index

Introduction to Mythology is a first-class textbook. I have looked around at many other texts and there are very few with the breadth and depth of this book.