N. J. ALLEN. — Du point de vue des historiens de Rome, Romulus est le fondateur, le conditor, par excellence, mais du point de vue de la mythologie comparée indo-européenne sa figure est très riche…

 

 

D. BRIQUEL. — According to the legend, Ratumena was an Etruscan charioteer who won a race in the city of Veii but, after his victory, was dragged away by his horses, that brought the chariot to Rome, where they stopped in front of the Capitoline temple…

 

 

Fr. DELPECH. — Investigation of a very ancient and widespread type of migratory legend which so far has not been taken into account in the systematic catalogues and international subject-indexes elaborated by specialists of folk-literature and mythology…

 

 

J.-L. DESNIER. — Georges Dumézil has suggested that Ulysses’final struggle with the suitors is the equivalent of the destruction of Troy or the battle of Kurukshetra (Mahabharata)…

 

 

M. V. GARCIA QUINTELA. — Le mythe de fondation de Lugdunum, que nous lisons dans le traité du Ps-Plutarque, Sur les fleuves, a été étudié traditionnellement sans tenir compte de son rapport avec l’autre partie du texte sur le fleuve Arar ni avec l’ensemble de l’œuvre…

 

 

G. HILY. — The aim of this study is to show the links between the Celtic god Lugus and landscape organization. We underline the important part of the light from sunrise – which has well known connexions with Lugus – in the process used by the Celts for their spatial orientation…

 

 

A. KOPTEV. — En droit romain primitif, le débiteur était obligé à payer ses créances avant la fin de l’année en cours. La garantie de la dette se réalisait avec l’aide du serment aux dieux…

 

 

R. LEBRUN. — In this contribution, the reader finds a short analysis of the Hittite-Luwian conception of the hastali- “Hero”, an official title dedicated to the Hittite kings during the Hittite Empire…

 

 

D. A. MILLER. — This paper looks at human attempts to understand and then to “order” the natural world, with special attention to “the road through the wood.”…

 

 

C. OBSOMER. — The diagram known as that ‘of the labyrinth’ is not specific to the Cretan world nor to Knossos. Attested from the second millenium from Syria to the British isles, it seems that it might represent an octaeteris or period of eight years, corresponding to 99 months in the lunar calendar…

 

 

J. POUCET. — The concept of dema is used in ethnography to designate a particular category of primordial beings in paleo-cultivator cultures. Certain Italian scholars have used it in their research on the origins of Rome, specifically when referring to Romulus…

 

 

P. SAUZEAU. — We will follow the Masters of paths. They are Pushan and Aryaman in India, Pan and Hermes in Ancient Greece; others are Scandinavian such as the god Ullr or Palnatoki, or anglo-saxon such as Robin Hood. Their tracks lead us from the rural or forest world…

 

 

B. SERGENT. — The tale of Jean de l'ours (Jean of the Bear) is like the Bird Nester myth , but in a reversed position. Both heroes experience a vertical disjunction, the first one downwards, the second one upwards…

 

 

C. STERCKX. — Scandinavian and Celtic myths propose close similar stories about two temporary losses of his royal power by the king of the gods, i.e. Odin, Math and Nuadha…

 

 

C. VIELLE. — This article does not at all deal with the controverted ideological theory of the ‘three functions’ such as used by Stig Wikander and Georges Dumézil in their interpretation of the Indian epics, but examines the basis of what could be called their ‘theological exegesis’ of the Mahābhārata…

 

 

R. D. WOODARD. — February 24 annually brings the archaic Roman ritual of the Regifugium, the ‘Flight of the King’…