Sir James George Frazer developed an affinity for classic literature at a young age, which developed into a very real talent through his schooling at Glasgow University and then Trinity College at Cambridge, where he remained as a Classics Fellow for all...
The notion of a man-god, or of a human being endowed with divine or supernatural powers, belongs essentially to that earlier period of religious history in which gods and men are still viewed as beings of much the same order, and before they are divided...
Sir James George Frazerâs monumental study of âmagic and religionâ is here presented in its 1922 edition, containing all three volumes. From Rome to Egypt to Polynesia, Frazer covered it all. Corn gods...
This is a facsimile reprint of Sir James George Frazerâs "Ancient Stories of a Great Flood," the Huxley Memorial Lecture for 1916, and published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.