Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology

The Encyclopedia investigates prehistoric mythology and that of Egypt, Assyro-Babylonia, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome, Persia, India, China, Japan, Oceania and that of the Celts, the Teutons, the Amerindians and Africans. It contains 34 colour plates and hundred of black and white illustrations and it concludes with a further reading list divided under different headings reflecting its chapter contents, plus a thorough index.

Here, in all their wonder and splendor, are the Mythologies of Mankind.. from pre-biblical Egypt and pre-Homeric Greece to the farthest researches of Africa, the Orient, the Pacific and the Americas.. all gathered into one mammoth volume of unprecedented scope and beauty, and illustrated with an incomparable scope and beauty, and illustrated with an incomparable assemblage of authentic paintings, sculpture, symbols, idols, ritual and sacrificial objects, many rarely seen by modern Western eyes. This monumental work is the first complete encyclopedia of world anthology. Originally published in France by the famous house of Larousse, it contains of course all the well-loved myths of Classical Antiquity. But more than half the book is devoted to the strange and unfamiliar mythologies of civilizations ... from Peru to Persia, from Tahiti to Togoland.

Table of Contents:
Introduction --
Prehistoric mythology --
Egyptian mythology --
Assyro-Babylonian mythology --
Phoenician mythology --
Greek mythology --
Roman mythology --
Celtic mythology --
Teutonic mythology --
Slavonic mythology --
Finno-Ugric mythology --
Mythology of Ancient Persia --
Indian mythology --
Chinese mythology --
Japanese mythology --
Mythology of the two Americas --
Oceanic mythology --
Mythology of Black Africa --
Further Reading List --
Acknowledgments --
Index.