ISBN:9780500291511

内容简介

Myths in every culture explain our origins, the earth’s creation, gods and monsters, demons, the afterlife and the underworld. This compelling account, newly available in paperback, gathers together themes and stories from every culture, showing how myths share many common patterns, and how the human imagination is expressed in all its diversity. It asks the question: what do myths tell us about the human condition? Compiled by Christopher Dell, the bestselling author of books on monsters and on masterpieces of world art, Mythology is packed with authoritative text and an inspired selection of images, chosen from unusual and hidden sources while also including some of the best-known representations of myths from around the world.

每一种文化的神话都解释了我们的起源、地球的创造、神和怪物、恶魔、来世和黑暗社会。本书汇聚神话主题和故事，从每一种文化，展示神话是如何有着许多共同的模式，以及人的想象力表现的多样性。本书探究的问题是：神话告诉我们关于人类发展中生存于什么样的条件？由克里斯托弗·戴尔，书中怪物和世界上的艺术杰作的畅销书作家，编制，其中所选的神话是充满了权威文字和启发图像的，同时也包括一些选自世界各地的权威的神话。