Myths We Live By
- Publisher
- University of Ottawa Press
- Initial publish date
- May 1998
- Category
- General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780776616605
- Publish Date
- May 1998
- List Price
- $11.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780776604442
- Publish Date
- May 1998
- List Price
- $24.95
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Colin Grant challenges the popular use of "myth" as a dismissive designation of the superstitions and falsehoods of "other" cultures. The author maintains that myths occupy a place in our present-day lives that is every bit as important to us as the divinities and heroes of classical antiquity were to the ancients. The myths themselves are in a constant state of flux and transformation. They ebb and flow, both within the context of wider culture and individual experience.