Myth and Literary History: Two Germanic Examples

Comparative Literary History

From Myth to History

Since the 1860s, biologists have repeatedly referred to Lamarck as one of the founding fathers of modern evolutionary doctrines, a claim hotly denied by most of their colleagues. Lamarck’s name has often been evoked to contrast his insistence on acquired individual variations with the mainstream interpretation of the Darwinian doctrine, which stresses the constant presence within a population o...

Epic and argument in Sanskrit Literary History

Origins of Glass: Myth and Known History

Where and when glass production began is uncertain. It is thought by some that the first glass was probably developed in the Mitannian or Hurrian region of Mesopotamia, possibly as an extension of the production of glazes (*5000 BCE) [1]. Around this same time, a new material called faience was developed, which was produced by utilizing a variety of techniques to create a glaze layer over a sil...

Studying Literary History with Latent Feature Models

Studying Literary History with Latent Feature Models