CDPC Myths of the Peoples of the World

The new series of directMedia Publishing - electronic versions of encyclopedias and dictionaries of the publishing house "Big Russian Encyclopedia". As the first disk of this series, the CD "myths of the peoples of the world" (1987-1988, "Soviet Encyclopedia", Ch. Ed. S.A. Tokarev) Such famous Russian scientists as A.F. took part in the creation of this encyclopedia. Losev, E.M. Meletinsky, B.L. Rifin, V.N. Toporov, etc. This encyclopedia is a fundamental scientific work, for which a number of authors and scientific consultants were awarded the USSR State Prize 1990. Here the reader will find information about all aspects of mythology: articles about gods, heroes, demons and spirits, reviews of mythological systems of various peoples and scientific theories of the myth. Only more than 3600 articles. An extensive illustrative series (more than 1,500 color and black and white illustrations) represents mythological images in the visual arts, maps and schemes.
System requirements: Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/HP, IBM PC 486 and higher, 16 MB RAM, CD-ROM, SVGA