Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell

male, deceased (1987)
Joseph John Campbell was an American mythology professor, writer, and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and...
James George Frazer

James George Frazer

male, deceased (1941)
Sir James George Frazer (January 1, 1854, Glasgow, Scotland - May 7, 1941), was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of...
Marina Warner

Marina Warner

female, 63 years old
Marina Warner (born 9 November 1946 London, England) is a British writer. She is a novelist, short story writer and mythographer, known for many...
Snorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson

male, deceased (1241)
Snorri Sturluson (1178 - September 23, 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet and politician. He was twice lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament,...
Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade

male, deceased (1986)
Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading...
Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch

male, deceased (1867)
Thomas Bulfinch (July 15 1796 - May 27, 1867) was an American writer, born in Newton, Massachusetts. Bulfinch belonged to a well educated Bostonian...
Jane Ellen Harrison

Jane Ellen Harrison

female, deceased (1928)
Jane Ellen Harrison (September 9, 1850-April 5, 1928) was a ground-breaking British classical scholar, linguist and feminist. Harrison is one of...

Claude Lévi-Strauss

male, 100 years old
Claude Lévi-Strauss (born November 28, 1908) is a French anthropologist who developed structuralism as a method of understanding human society and c...

Carl A. P. Ruck

male, 73 years old
Carl A. P. Ruck (born Dec 8 1935, Bridgeport, Connecticut), is a professor in the Classical Studies department at Boston University. He received...

Acusilaus

male
Acusilaus or Akousilaos of Argos, son of Cabas or Scabras, was a Greek logographer and mythographer who flourished around 500 BC but whose work...