Note 574 — Chapter X · MYTHOLOGY (continued).
Reading edition
On the adoption of imaginary ancestors as connected with the fiction of a common descent, and the important political and religious effects of these proceedings, see especially Grote, ‘History of Greece,’ vol. i.; McLennan, ‘Primitive Marriage;’ Maine, ‘Ancient Law.’ Interesting details on eponymic ancestors in Pott, ‘Anti-Kaulen, oder Mythische Vorstellungen vom Ursprnge der Völker and Sprachen.’