1. Classical Mythology Theories of Myth

2. Karl Philipp Moritz (1756-1793). Portrait by Karl Franz Jacob Heinrich Schumann, 1791. Halberstadt, Das Gleimhaus. Karl Otfried Müller (1797- 1840). Bust by Alexander Tondeur, 1880. University of Göttingen. EXTERNALIST: The mythopoeic mind

3. Andrew Lang (1844-1912). Friedrich Max Müller (1823- 1900). Portrait by George Frederic Watts, 1894–1895. National Portrait Gallery, London. EXTERNALIST: aetiology, Euhemerism, allegory

4. Joseph M W Turner (1775-1851). The Golden Bough, 1834. Tate Gallery, London. Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941). Photograph of 1933. EXTERNALIST: ritual

5. Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928). Portrait by Augustus John, 1909. Cambridge, Newnham College. EXTERNALIST: ritual

6. Bronsilaw Malinowski (1884-1942) with natives, Trobriand Islands, 1918. EXTERNALIST: charter myths / functionalism

7. Sigmund Freud (1856- 1939). Bookplate, logo of the Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1922, cartoon from the New York Review of Books INTERNALIST: psychoanalysis

8. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961).Mircea Eliade (1907-1986). Joseph Campbell (1904-1987). INTERNALIST: psychoanalysis

9. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009). Jean-Paul Vernant (1914-2007). Walter Burkert (1931-). INTERNALIST: structuralsim

10. Theseus and the Minotaur (detail). Master of the Campana Cassone, early XVI. Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais. ALLEGORY

11. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829). Portrait by Franz Gareis, 1801. Friedrich Max Müller (1823- 1900). Portrait by George Frederic Watts, 1894–1895. National Portrait Gallery, London. COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY

12. Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (1895-1970). Photograph of 1928. Propp’s 31 Narrative Functions. NARRATOLOGY

13. Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815 – 1887). Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994). Photograph of 1993. MUTTERRECHT

14. FEMINIST/QUEER STUDIES

15. Betsy Damon (1940-). The 7,000 Year Old Woman. New York City, 1977. Photograph by Su Friedrich. Artemis of Ephesus. I CE copy of the cult statue. Ephesus Archaeological Museum, Selçuk. NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY

17. A myth is a socially powerful traditional story. Buxton, Greek Mythology A definition makes a good servant but a bad master. Buxton, Imaginary Greece A myth is a fictitious story that illustrates the truth. Theon, Progymnasmata