Anthony Winterbourne

During his years as a lecturer, Anthony Winterbourne's primary philosophical interests were German metaphysics and epistemology, in which fields he contributed a number of papers to academic journals. His first book was The Ideal and the Real: An Outline of Kant's theory of Space, Time and Mathematical Construction, and he also published two books on the philosophical context of Wagnerian music-drama: Speaking to Our Condition: Moral Frameworks in Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung (FDUP, 2003), and A Pagan Spoiled: Sex and Character in Wagner's Parsifal (FDUP, 2003). He has recently turned his attention to comparative mythology, from which research the present volume is a result. Dr. Winterbourne was born and educated in London, and holds degrees in philosophy from the University of Bristol