Human beings have always been mythmakers. So begins best-selling writer Karen Armstrong s concise yet compelling investigation into myth: what it is, how it has evolved, and why we still so desperately need it. She takes us from the Paleolithic period and the myths of the hunters right up to the Great Western Transformation of the last five hundred years and the discrediting of myth by science. The history of myth is the history of humanity, our stories and beliefs, our curiosity and attempts to understand the world, which link us to our ancestors and each other. Heralding a major series of retellings of international myths by authors from around the world, Armstrong s characteristically insightful and eloquent book serves as a brilliant and thought-provoking introduction to myth in the broadest senseand explains why if we dismiss it, we do so at our peril."
- ISBN10 184195800X
- ISBN13 9781841958002
- Publish Date 1 October 2006 (first published 21 October 2005)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Canongate Books Ltd
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 159
- Language English