From Olympus to Camelot

From Iceland to India from prehistoric cave paintings and fertility figurines to such modern-day 'myths' as the invisible hand the Oedipal conflict and Schrodinger's cat Leeming's intriguing treatise on comparative mythology covers a lot of ground. Out of this enormous variety of information Leeming a professor of comparative literature and author of The World of Myth discerns a coherent distinctive European mythical tradition.... His wide-ranging well-written treatment contains a wealth of insights on the development of Western culture.--PW Online