THE MEASURE OF ALL GODS: RELIGIOUS PARADIGMS OF THE ANTIQUITY AS ANTHROPOLOGICAL INVARIANTS by A. V. Halapsis

“…The historical space acquires anthropological properties that determine the specific mythology of the respective societies, as well as their spiritual successors. …”
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Evita, Historia y Mitología by Marysa Navarro

“…Analysis of two antagonistic visions –what Eva Perón represented in Juan Domingo Perón’s government and her real self– and how, as years went by, these representations of Evita created a real mythology which continues to be very vivacious today.…”
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Terres agglutinées, fragments de mondes possibles : les récits brefs de science-fiction by Yves Iehl, Jean Nimis

“…Collections, anthologies, magazines, fanzines and digital media give access to these texts, becoming pathways to contemporary mythologies.…”
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Le rôle de l’intertexte et du palimpseste dans la création d’une Écosse mythique dans Waverley et Rob Roy de Walter Scott by Céline SABIRON

“…Politically, religiously, and socially divided, it is led to redefine its image by rewriting history through mythology. A myth is “a speech, a system of communication, a message”, Roland Barthes explains in Mythologies. …”
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Without Pictorial Detour: Benjamin, Mies and the Architectural Image by Lutz Robbers

“…Especially the architectural image, whether in the form of a printed drawing, photographic illustration, or an actual built object, appears to have been crucial for placing the history of media technologies (architecture being one of these media) in a constellation with the ‘archaic symbol-worlds of mythologies.’ If architecture is, as Benjamin claims in his initial notes for The Arcades Project, ‘the most important testimony to latent “mythology,”’ the architectural image might very well be the agent that causes the moment of awakening, the instance when a constellation between technology and ancient symbol worlds is formed. …”
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Śladami „złotej kohorty” (Dmitrij Bykow, „Uniewinnienie”) by Aleksandra Zywert

“…The work combines mythologizing and demythologizing tendencies, which makes it an interesting example of quasi-historical prose. …”
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« La littérature ne fait rien toute seule » by Florent Coste

“…Is it possible to confer power to literature, without  giving to laughable mythology and without putting this power inside the text ? …”
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Gauguin, Buffalo Bill, and the Cowboy Hat by Nancy Mowll Mathews

“…In this paper, I show how the French post-impressionist artist Paul Gauguin absorbed Buffalo Bill’s dual cowboy and Indian mythologies from his visits to the Wild West show, which ran alongside the 1889 Paris international exposition. …”
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A new monograph by Konstantin Frumkin [Review: Frumkin K.G. Admiring the Academic Class: Reflection of the Social History of Soviet Science in Literature, Art, and Public Rhetoric.... by D.E. Martynov, Yu.A. Martynova

“…The author describes it as a “class mythology” characterized by undisguised elitism and “talent-centric racism.” …”
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Russell and Wittgenstein: apprenticeship and other ‘crossings’ by V. V. Tselishchev

“…The article is devoted to the analysis of the traditional interpretation for the development of personal and intellectual relations between Russell and Wittgenstein in the light of the publication of materials from the Russell Archive. The mythology of the traditional interpretation of the development and collaboration of Wittgenstein and Russell is demonstrated and criticized. …”
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ULTIMA RATIO DEORUM by Alexis V. Halapsis

“…It has been discovered fundamental shift associated with the transition from mythology-as-faith to mythology-as-show. However, even within the latter remains a need for miracles, though, and goes to a completely different level. …”
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Huculszczyzna w II Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej. Romantyczny mit „Nowej Arkadii” w racjonalnym społeczeństwie/ Hutsul Region in the Second Republic of Poland. The Romantic Myth of the... by Włodzimierz Osadczy

“…In the Second Republic of Poland, the Hutsul region was shown as a semi-wild, picturesque land, shrouded in folk mythology and magic. It was perceived as a center of life unspoiled by civilization, possessing great energy and spontaneity. …”
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Comparative Analysis on the Epic of Gilgamesh and Aphrodite and Hippolytus and the Difference on Death between Eastern and Western View by Sophia Ardya Garini

“…This paper concludes that there are some differences and similarities from The Epic of Gilgamesh and Greek mythology, between Ishtar and Aphrodite. Death and suicide by Takeyama, according to Mishima (in Patriotism) is the final of his life achievement; death with heroic sense; death with pride. …”
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Éros minoritaire : tel qu’il est vécu by Françoise d’Eaubonne

“…Disputing the scientific positions, which distinguish between inborn and acquired homosexuality, the author dismantels this mythology by showing its fallacious and repressive nature. …”
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Polyphemus Moth Antheraea polyphemus (Cramer) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Saturniidae: Saturniinae) by Donald W. Hall

“…It is named after Polyphemus, the giant cyclops from Greek mythology who had a single large, round eye in the middle of his forehead. …”
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Polyphemus Moth Antheraea polyphemus (Cramer) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Saturniidae: Saturniinae) by Donald W. Hall

“…It is named after Polyphemus, the giant cyclops from Greek mythology who had a single large, round eye in the middle of his forehead. …”
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КУЛЬТУРНАЯ КОННОТАЦИЯ ФРАЗЕОЛОГИЗМОВ РУССКОГО ЯЗЫКА by ВАЛЕНТИН ЗИМИН

“…That is why the cultural commentary of phraseological units is nothing else but methodical disclosure of their presuppositional aspects which are the true codes of culture and include in themselves meanings and senses connected with mythology, legends, rites and rituals, symbols, stereotypes, traditions, habits and so on.…”
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Lumière sur Eugène Martial Simas, décorateur oublié de la Belle Époque by Constance Desanti

“…Attached to classical mythology and traditional craftsmanship, Eugène Martial cleared the way for the new generation of artists that propagated its gentle utopia of a new art, present everywhere and accessible to everyone, at the turn of the twentieth century.…”
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Une masculinité en crise à la fin du XVIIe siècle ? La critique de l'efféminé chez La Bruyère by Cédric Corgnet

“…But this teratology is not above all clinical but social and moral: he warns us, by this distance from gender, from a moral corruption of the world both by a clinical semiology and ovidian mythology not looking for the pathological realism but the antic filiation with Theophrast’s Characters : philosopher more than naturalist.…”
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The Deer Hunter : essai de topologie imaginaire américaine by Jacques Pothier

“…This essay centers on Michael Cimino’s film on the Vietnam War to explore how the mythology of space in the American imagination is revisited at the end of the twentieth century. …”
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