In Quest of the Hero

someone walked off with my copy of Raglan's _the hero_, and this filled the gap. not as annoying as Raglan.

NICE! Good heavens the chapter on Jesus just will blow you away! Most interesting and well done. Makes me scramble to re-read what I thought I knew about Jesus. I love books like this! READ IT!

Robert A. Segal is very likely the best Classical theorist of the hero myth. In his book, In Quest of the Hero, he offers an excellent essay on the key theorists of the hero myth. This essay alone is worth the cost of the book.This book offers the key works of Raglan and Rank. He also offers other key works on the hero myth.Of note, Segal offers the controversial essay by Dundes on the hero myth and Jesus Christ. It would be interesting to get feed back from our Christian collegues on this one.If you are a Christian and have any interest in the hero myth, Dundes essay is a must. I would hope that readers would begin to see the application of mythology and christianity.

This is an excellent and economical way to get these classic studies. Contains Lord Raglan's 22 things you need to be a hero. The first - The hero's mother is a royal virgin - the last - has one or more holy sepulchres. Must read literature for the mythologist and interesting to check how your particular hero matches up with the standards! Rank has his own list of 16 things, so if you can't make the big list, try the little one . . .

Interesting topic, universal archetypes.