This last idea has been worked out by Mr. Andrew Lang, who-judging by his book on The Making of Religion-should be classed as a Comparative Religionist rather than as a Comparative mythologist.
"Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries"
Annie Besant
The statement of Herodotus that Homer and Hesiod "made the Greek theogony, and assigned to the gods their epithets and distinguished their prerogatives and their functions, and indicated their form," would not, of course, be accepted in a literal sense by any modern mythologist.
"Religion and Art in Ancient Greece"
Ernest Arthur Gardner
Merely the Voyage to Atlantis of the mythologist Denis de Milet, which is mentioned by Diodorus and the loss of which I had so often heard Berlioux deplore.
"Atlantida"
Pierre Benoit