Myth and literature of antiquity

The book of a classic philologist, Professor LSU O. M. Freidenberg (1890-1955), a well-known scientist and theorist of the myth, include works that were not published during the life of the author: "Lectures on the introduction to the theory of ancient folklore", "image and concept. Lumb lectures" and article "entry into Jerusalem on a donkey".
In the image and concept of "contains the theory of metaphor and a detailed analysis of the phenomenon of the ancient Greek tragedy ahead of its time. The book is equipped with a new preface, comments, afterwords to the 1st and 2nd editions, a brief dictionary of terms, bibliographs and pointers.
The works of a wonderful philologist and cultural scientist remain modern and can be interesting not only to specialists.
4th edition, corrected and supplemented