James George Frazer
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Sir James George Frazer was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.
Frazer in 1933
A snake shedding its skin
Dead banana plants
The Golden Bough
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was first
James George Frazer
…Burial Ground in Cambridge. Frazer is commonly interpreted as an atheist in light of his criticism of Christianity and especially Roman Catholicism in The Golden Bough. However, his later writings and unpublished materials suggest an ambivalent relationship with Neoplatonism and Hermeticism. In 1896 Frazer married…
Cover of the first volume of the 1976 Macmillan Press edition
J. M. W. Turner's 1834 painting of the Golden Bough incident in the Aeneid
The Judgement of Paris—an Etruscan bronze mirror of the 4th or 3rd century BC that relates the myth as interpreted by Frazer, showing the three goddesses giving their apple or pomegranate to the new king, who must kill the old king