To Fetch Some Golden Apples: Course Pack for Readings in Indo-European Myth, Religion, and Society

This course package includes:

• A printed copy of To Fetch Some Golden Apples: Readings in Indo-European Myth, Religion, and Society
• Access to the eBook version of Indo-European Myth and Religion: A Manual

Indo-European Myth and Religion: A Manual, now in its fourth edition, is a unique scholarly and pedagogical resource designed for college-level students. The work is formatted as a handbook of eleven chapters distilling fundamental ideas in outline form with essential bibliography. Two introductory chapters provide an overview of the Indo-European cultural and language family, reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language, the methodology of historical-comparative reconstruction, and the developmental history of the discipline of comparative Indo-European mythic and religious studies. The nine chapters that follow treat the attested Indo-European religious and mythic traditions of ancient and medieval Europe (Roman, Greek, Celtic, Germanic) and Asia (Indic, Iranian, and Hittite). An appendix provides three sets of practice exams, with answers.

The manual is accompanied by a reader, To Fetch Some Golden Apples: Readings in Indo-European Myth, Religion, and Society, containing selections that reinforce and augment ideas presented in Indo-European Myth and Religion. These reading selections consist of secondary works by leading scholars in the discipline of comparative myth and religion, such as George Dumézil, Émile Benveniste, Calvert Watkins, and primary works drawn from Roman, Greek, Indic, Iranian, Irish, and Icelandic sources.