A new volume of the series Mythological Studies (MythoS) has appeared
in print and open access (funded by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft):

Zgoll A. / Zgoll C. 2020,
Mythische Sphärenwechsel. Methodisch neue Zugänge zu antiken Mythen in
Orient und Okzident,
MythoS 2
Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter
Hardcover: xix, 639 pages
ISBN 978-3-11-065252-9
List price: [D] 99.95*
US$ 114.99 / GBP 91.00*

Abstract
Journey to the realm of the dead, transfer to the Island of the
Blessed, ascension to heaven - with innovative theoretical and
methodological approaches, myths about the change of spheres can be
reconstructed as narrative materials with different variants and
strata. The new approaches pursued here open up dynamic processes of
myth transmission and surprise with the proof of different strata,
which reveal an intertwining of several levels of meaning.

The book deals with Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Hebrew
Sources and it contains an overview over the frame theory and method
of reconstructing myths in a condensed English version of Christian
Zgoll´s Tractatus Mythologicus, Mythological Studies 1, 2019.

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