1. Chapter Twenty-Four Lecture Two Theories of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

2. Romantic Theories

3. Friedrich Creuzer –Symbolism and Mythology of the Ancient Peoples, Especially the Greeks Johann Bachofen –Das Mutterrecht –Friedrich Engles, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State –Vladimir Propp

4. Anthropological Theories

5. Edward Tylor –Primitive Culture –Andrew Lang, Myth, Literature, and Religion James Frazer –The Golden Bough –Ritual theory of myth

6. Anthropological Theories Bronislaw Malinowski –Magic, Science and Religion –Charter theory of myth –Functionalism

7. Linguistic Theories Max Müller –Solar mythology –Disease of language William Jones –Indo-European –Indo-European comparative mythology George Dumézil –Functions in IE society

8. Psychological Theories

9. Sigmund Freud –Condensation –Displacement –Oedipus Complex –The Interpretation of Dreams Carl Jung –Collective unconscious –Archetypes

10. Psychological Theories Erich Neumann –Dragon combat –Great Mother

11. Structuralist Theories

12. Claude Lévi-Strauss –Reconciliation of opposites Paris school of myth criticism –“Syntax” of the interrelations of myths –E.g. Hestia and Hermes

13. Contextual Approaches

14. Walter Burkert –Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual –Programs of action Feminist criticism –Some myths explain and reinforce women’s social roles

15. Conclusion

16. Humans create an alternate world through myth Grand theorizers –Must disregard what doesn’t square with or doesn’t seem important to the theory –Myth, particularly classical myth, is too varied to be understood by one approach

17. End