New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology
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A marvel of scholarly & pictorial art—Detroit News
This wonderful book is a revelation—Dame Edith Sitwell
Here, in all their wonder & splendor, are the mythologies of humankind—from pre-biblical Egypt & pre-Homeric Greece to the furthest reaches of Africa, the Orient, the Pacific & the Americas—all gathered into one mammoth volume of unprecedented scope & beauty, & illustrated with an incomparable assemblage of authentic paintings, sculpture, symbols, idols, ritual & sacrificial objects, many rarely seen by modern Western eyes.
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This monumental work is the 1st complete encyclopedia of world mythology. Originally published in France by the famous house of Larousse, it contains of course all the well-loved myths of Classical Antiquity. But more than half the book is devoted to the strange & unfamiliar mythologies of civilizations other than our own—from Peru to Persia, from Tahiti to Togoland.
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