These groundbreaking essays, assembled in 1885, explore the roots of Greek, Finnish, and other mythologies.

The first of Lang’s works applying anthropology to myth, this volume includes “The Method of Folklore,” “The Myth of Cronus,” “Cupid, Psyche, and the ‘Sun-Frog,’ “A Far-Travelled Tale,” “Apollo and the Mouse,” “Star Myths,” “The Art of Savages,” and others.