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Mythic Time

Mythic Time is a conceptual framework within comparative mythology that denotes the qualitative, often cyclical or episodic temporality through which mythic events are understood to occur, distinguished from linear historical time by its recurrent, sacred, and atemporal characteristics.

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2017–2026

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154

Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time.

Alan Bewell, Stephen Jay Gould · Eighteenth-Century Studies · 1988 · 534 citations

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Past Future and Present Past: Temporal Deixis in Greek Archaic Lyric

Arethusa · 2004 · 157 citations

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Migration and mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England

Choice Reviews Online · 1990 · 150 citations

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The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth

Calvin S. Brown, Neil Forsyth · Comparative Literature · 1988 · 147 citations

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Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins

Michael H. Jameson, Joseph Fontenrose · The Classical World · 1960 · 139 citations

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Authors

174

  1. JF
    Joseph Fontenrose

    3 publications · 248 citations

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  2. BR
    Berthold Riese

    2 publications · 39 citations

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  3. JC
    J. C. Davis

    Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

    2 publications · 99 citations

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  4. DH
    Doris Heyden

    2 publications · 39 citations

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  5. RA
    Robert A. Segal

    Institute of Religious Studies, Brazil

    2 publications · 63 citations

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Institutions

49

  1. Institute of Religious Studies

    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    130 citations

  2. Victoria University of Wellington

    Wellington, New Zealand

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    36 citations

  3. Heidelberg University

    Heidelberg, Germany

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    39 citations

  4. The Ohio State University

    Columbus, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    49 citations

  5. Aberystwyth University

    Aberystwyth, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    59 citations

  6. Brunel University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    71 citations

  7. American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology

    Vista, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  8. University of Sheffield

    Sheffield, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    24 citations

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  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 19 publications · 864 citations

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  2. Journal of American Folklore

    JAF · 5 publications · 298 citations

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  3. Arethusa

    4 publications · 273 citations

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  4. History and Theory

    2 publications · 119 citations

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  5. Numen

    2 publications · 34 citations

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