HUG,I.L. Untersuchungen über den Mythos der berühmtern Völker der alten Welt, vorzüglich der Griechen; dessen Entstehen, Veränderungen und Innhalt. Freiburg und Konstanz, In der Herderschen Buchhandlung, 1812. (VI),IV,349,(1 blank) p. Half cloth 25 cm (Details: Simple binding. 4 large folding plates, 1: of the zodiac of the two hemispheres, 3 & 4: 'Alter Tierkreis den man in dem Tempel zu Tentyra in Oberägypten gefunden hat', and 4: engraving of the Egyptian zodiac. Four nice engravings in the text) (Condition: Back slightly damaged. Somewhat foxed) (Note: The German Roman Catholic theologian, orientalist and biblical scholar Johann Leonhard Hug, 1765-1846, was called to the Freiburg chair of Oriental languages and Old Testament exegesis in 1791. Hug published on the Synoptic Gospels. He further wrote on the origin of alphabetical writing (Die Erfindung der Buch-stabenschrift, 1801), on the antiquity of the Codex Vaticanus (1810), and on ancient mythology (Untersuchungen über den Mythos der alten Völker, 1812); a new interpretation of the Song of Solomon (Des hohe Lied in einer noch unversuchten Deutung, 1813), on the Alexandrian version of the Pentateuch (1818). Works of him were translated into English and French. (Source Wikipedia) Hug's 'Untersuchungen über den Mythos der alten Völker' examines the Egyptian origin of Greek mythology. We mention titles of some chapters: 'Verbreitung der ägyptischen Götterlehre nach Phönikien, und von daher nach Griechenland', or 'Persephone, Hekate, und Astarte oder Kypria, Juno', or 'Titanenkämpfe, Typhon, Pan, Asklepios, 'Die musikalische Götter', or 'Die Götter zu Schiffe') (Photographs on request)
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