History of Concepts
Explore the history of ideas with our curated reading list, featuring Karen Armstrong's A Short History of Myth—a brilliant journey through storytelling, belief, and human evolution.
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A Short History of Myth
by Karen Armstrong
The author of The History of God and In the Beginning: A New Reading of Genesis offers a useful, well-written introduction to mythology from the Paleolithic period to the "Great Western Transformation" that used science to discredit myth. Reprint.
