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J. FONTENROSE, The Cult and Myth of Pyrros at Delphi (University of California Publications in Classical Archaeology, Vol IV, no. 3, pp. 191-266, plates 18-19, 2 figures in text). Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1960

J. FONTENROSE, The Cult and Myth of Pyrros at Delphi (University of California Publications in... 437 deviations: sometimes he finds that one or more of the ten principal themes are missing, then again he has to admit that "all but five of the forty-three listed themes of the combat-myth" are present. Fol- lowing the author's subdivisions a historian probably would be more interested in the question why five themes are missing here than in the conclusion-never to be proved-that in spite of the lack of these five themes the ideas of people in this locality are the same as those of people thousands of miles away. For this conclusion implies nothing more or less than that human beings, wherever they may live, remain alike in many respects and that the number of motifs available for the expression of ideas and experiences is limited. But why does the author almost convince us ? This is beautifully demonstrated on p. 46 ff. where he deals with "Python and his Derivatives". All mythological figures resembling Python and his congeners to some extent are identified with chthonic divinities, very carefully at first, e.g."Melantho may be a name of Ge"- so no certainty yet. The differences are reduced in importance, as on p. 64, where F. concludes that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

J. FONTENROSE, The Cult and Myth of Pyrros at Delphi (University of California Publications in Classical Archaeology, Vol IV, no. 3, pp. 191-266, plates 18-19, 2 figures in text). Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1960

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Mnemosyne , Volume 16 (4): 437 – Jan 1, 1963
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© 1963 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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437 deviations: sometimes he finds that one or more of the ten principal themes are missing, then again he has to admit that "all but five of the forty-three listed themes of the combat-myth" are present. Fol- lowing the author's subdivisions a historian probably would be more interested in the question why five themes are missing here than in the conclusion-never to be proved-that in spite of the lack of these five themes the ideas of people in this locality are the same as those of people thousands of miles away. For this conclusion implies nothing more or less than that human beings, wherever they may live, remain alike in many respects and that the number of motifs available for the expression of ideas and experiences is limited. But why does the author almost convince us ? This is beautifully demonstrated on p. 46 ff. where he deals with "Python and his Derivatives". All mythological figures resembling Python and his congeners to some extent are identified with chthonic divinities, very carefully at first, e.g."Melantho may be a name of Ge"- so no certainty yet. The differences are reduced in importance, as on p. 64, where F. concludes that

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