More on Gladstone

A couple of days ago I mentioned Burkert’s reference to William Ewart Gladstone’s noticing of the connection between the Enuma Elish and Homer in Burk

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When Politicians Knew Homer

In his article called ‘The Logic of Cosmogony’, Walter Burkert writes, in a passage regarding how ancients attempted to tell the tale about ‘the begin

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On Mythological Terminology

‘Scholars have often found it difficult to distinguish between myth and other kinds of traditional tale: saga, legend, folktale, and fable. It is not

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