“A Brief History of Myth” is not a set of well-known facts about the features of the genre or highly specialized reflections on legendary heroes. Ms. Armstrong's essay is a fascinating exploration of the development of world culture, religion and human consciousness from ancient Paleolithic times to the present day. After all, like any product of artistic thought, myth has served for thousands of years to embody and vent our fears, desires, and problems... “A Brief History of Myth” became the title book of the international literary project “Myths,” which united the most significant and brightest writers of our time. And on the day of its release, October 21, 2005, it “created” an unprecedented publishing precedent: it simultaneously appeared in 33 countries and in 28 languages!