Word: mythologists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sent to Berlin by the Italian government to study under Professor Bopp and Weber. In 1863 he became extraordinary professor of sanskrit and comparative literature at the University of Florence, becoming ordinary professor in 1869. He is well known as a dramatist, lyric poet, journalist, critic, orientalist, and mythologist. Among his best known plays are: "Pere delle Vigne," "La Morte daCatone," "Romolo," "II Re Nala" and "Savitri," Professor De Gubernatis is the Italian correspondent of several of the most prominent monthly reviews and has written many scientific works...
There are numerous traces of polytheism among the Hebrews in the Old Testament, particularly in Genesis and Joshua. The early history of the He brews is very little known, because, unlike other nations, they had no great mythologist to bring down the early facts of their history. There are, however, marks of mythology in the first eleven chapters of Genesis. In Joshua there are probable evidences of the worship of household and ancestral gods, and traces of polytheism are very strong there, at the least. It is not to be supposed that each clan or tribe had several gods...