Comparative Mythology
| Author | Jaan Puhvel |
|---|---|
| Published | 1987 |
| Format | Book |
TL;DR — Jaan Puhvel’s 1987 survey of the myths of the Indo-European peoples and what comparing them suggests about a shared inherited tradition.
Published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 1987. Puhvel, a UCLA scholar of Indo-European languages and myth, surveys the mythologies of the Near East, India, Iran, Greece, Rome, the Celts, the Germanic peoples and the Balts and Slavs.
The book compares those traditions to reconstruct themes they may have inherited from a common Indo-European past, drawing on the method of Georges Dumézil and others. It is widely used as a university introduction to the field.
What it is: a standard academic survey from a university press, in copyright. This copy is an image-only scan with no text layer.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
323 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.