How many on M & F have read Frazer's"The Golden Bough" from Cover to cover?

Question

And how many can give a short synopsis?

Okay, hang on, I'll accept the 1950 abridged edition.....if the Christians can say the heck with the rules of scholarship, so can Pagans.

To be honest, I read it through once about thirty years ago. It took me a whole summer.

Answer 1

by Sir James George Frazer
[1922] 69 chapters
This massive study of the mythological cycle of the Godesses' lover, the solar God who dies and is reborn, had a huge influence on Margaret Murray, Robert Graves and Gardner.
there's a famous painting (J.M.W. Turner) Aeneas and the Sybil have just presented the Golden Bough, which allows entry to the Elysian Fields, to the gatekeeper.
Sorry cant say I'ved read more then a couple of chapters

is there a Cliff nots verson? just kidding...

Answer 2

I don't know. That's a good question. I have read it cover to cover, am too lazy for a short synopsis, but cannot answer your question because I do not know if I am a common or uncommon incidence of readership.

Answer 3

Well, I tried...the much abridged version, and still couldn't get through it. Nor can I give you any kind of a synopsis. Big complicated book.

Answer 4

You mean all 13 volumes? I don't think anyone here has the time to read all 13 volumes of the text. And if they did they wouldn't have time to be here.