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PrintCollection Name: Drachen Foundation Collection
Collection Number: 2343
Post Type: Book
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Artist or Author: Introduction by Robert Graves
Creation Year: 1959
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ISBN: 0 600 02420 2 Language: English Description: Here, in all their wonder and splendor, are the Mythologies of Mankind -- from pre-Biblical Egypt and pre-Homeric Greece to the farthest reaches of Africa, the Orient, the Pacific, and the Americas -- all gathered into one mammoth volume of unprecedented scope and beauty, and illustrated with an incomparable assemblage of authentic paintings, sculpture, symbols, idols, ritual and sacrificial objects, many rarely seen by modern Western eyes.
This monumental work is the first 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 and unfamiliar mythologies of civilizations other than our own...from Peru to Persia, from Tahiti to Togoland.
NEARLY 600 ILLUSTRATIONS. Open the New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology and wander spellbound through a treasure-house of ancient, primitive, prehistoric, and exotic art. The magnificent illustrations that illumine every page -- including thirty-two full-color plates -- make it a veritable museum in itself.
500 pages
Geographic: Asia, Europe
Materials: Paper
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