The History of Modern Mythology

Enlightenment Rationalism

Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) - Historical and Critical Dictionary (1697)

Bernard de Fontenelle (1657-1757) - On the Origin of Fables (1724)

François Joseph Lafitau (1670-1740) - The Customs of the American Savages Compared to the Customs of Earliest Times (1724)

Myth as Primitive Science

Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729-1812)

Karl Otfried Müller (1797-1840) - Prolegomena to a Scientific Mythology (1825)

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (1785-1863)

Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900) Comparative Mythology (1856)

Adalbert Kuhn (1812-1881) - The Origin of Fire (1859)

Johann Wilhelm Emanuel Mannhardt (1831-1880)

Hermann Usener (1834-1905)

James George Frazer (1854-1941) The Golden Bough (1890, 1912-5)

Edward Tylor (1832-1917) - Primitive Culture (1871)

Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

The Romantic Tradition - Myth as primeval expression of religious experience

Giambattista Vico (1688-1744) - New Science (1725)

David Hume (1711-1776) - Natural History of Religion (1757)

Nicolas Fréret (1688-1749) - génie national des Grecs

Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803)

Karl Philipp Moritz (1756-1793) Treatise on the Gods or The Mythical Poetry of the Ancients (1791)

Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784-1868) A Treatise on the Greek Gods (1857-63)

Friedrich Creuzer (1771-1858) - Symbolism and Mythology of Ancient Peoples, especially of the Greeks (1810-12)

Friedrich W. J. Schelling (1775-1854)

Walter Friedrich Otto (1874-1958)

Karl Kerenyi (1897-1973)

Mircea Eliade

Ernst Cassirer

Psychological Approach to Myth

Sigmund Freud (1856- 1939)

Carl Gustav Jung (1865-1961)

Myth and Ritual School

Cambridge School - - Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928)- Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Francis M. Cornford, A.B. Cook, Gilbert Murray,

Robert Graves

Victor Turner

Arnold Van Gennep - Rites of Passage (1908)

Functionalism

Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942)

Emil Durkheim (1858-1917) Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1915)

Structuralism

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908- ) Mythologiques (1964-71)

Jean-Pierre Vernant; Marcel Detienne, Pierre Vidal-Naquet

Vladimir J. Propp (1895-1970) - Morphology of the Folktale (1928, English translation 1958)

Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) Hero with Thousand Faces (1949)

Walter Burkert Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual (1989)

Semiotic Approach to Myth

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) Mythologies (1957); Claude Calame, Charles Segal

Lincoln, Bruce, Theorizing Myth, Chicago, 1999, p.144.