Category: Mythology

By Joel Skidmore, Jeff Cretcher, Marty Beckers, Kim Goeller, Chip Breitwieser

ISBN-10: 0982133308

ISBN-13: 9780982133309

This guidebook for the preferred computing device online game Wrath of the Gods is full of pleasing and actual details from Greek mythology, in accordance with the tales of the heroes, gods and monsters of the Greek myths. This 160-page paperback is the correct supplement to the CD-ROM and will also be loved by itself. It includes the entire mythological heritage to each scene within the online game, in addition to a advisor to the answer of the puzzles

By Peter Watson

ISBN-10: 8498924553

ISBN-13: 9788498924558

Cuando Colón llegó a América en 1492 encontró un Nuevo Mundo muy distinto del Viejo, del cual había partido. ¿Por qué habían evolucionado de manera tan distinta? Para averiguarlo Watson emprende una experiencia de arqueología cognitiva, basada en l. a. interacción que existe entre las rules de los seres humanos y las realidades naturales de su entorno, con el fin de ofrecernos una visión comparada de l. a. evolución de las civilizaciones, las creencias y las formas de vida en Eurasia y en América. Basándose en los más recientes hallazgos de los angeles arqueología y de los angeles ciencia, Watson nos guía por un fantástico recorrido en que nos habla de genes y volcanes, de l. a. relación entre los humanos y los animales, del culto de los angeles Gran Diosa, del Génesis y los angeles prehistoria del sexo, de drogas, sacrificios y plegarias… De las diferencias, en suma, entre un mundo creado por los pastores y otro dominado por los chamanes.

By R. Scott Smith, Stephen M. Trzaskoma, Apollodorus, Hyginus

ISBN-10: 1603840524

ISBN-13: 9781603840521

Author note: Translated and Introductions by way of R. Scott Smith, Stephen M. Trzaskoma
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By supplying, for the 1st time in one version, entire English translations of Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae -- the 2 most vital surviving "handbooks" of classical mythography--this quantity permits readers to match the two's types of crucial Greek and Roman myths.

A basic creation units the Library and Fabulae into the broader context of old mythography; introductions to every textual content speak about in higher element problems with authorship, goal, and impact. A basic index, an index of individuals and geographic destinations, and an index of authors and works mentioned by means of the mythographers also are integrated.

By Philip Matyszak

ISBN-10: 0500770697

ISBN-13: 9780500770696

Jam-packed with interesting evidence and diverting stories—the excellent advent to the myths and stories that lie on the middle of Western culture.Who used to be Pandora and what was once in her recognized field? How did Achilles get his Achilles heel? What precisely is a Titan? And why is one trojan horse referred to as a Trojan horse?

The myths of old Greece and Rome can look bewilderingly advanced, but they're loads part of sleek existence and discourse that almost all folks recognize fragments of them. This accomplished spouse takes those fragments and weaves them into an obtainable and relaxing narrative, guiding the reader in the course of the simple tales of classical myth.

Philip Matyszak explains the sequences of occasions and introduces the key plots and characters, from the origins of the area and the labors of Hercules to the Trojan warfare and the voyages of Odysseus and Aeneas. He brings to existence an unique solid of heroes and monsters, wronged ladies and frighteningly arbitrary but strong gods. He additionally indicates how the tales have survived and vastly inspired later paintings and tradition, from Renaissance portray and sculpture to trendy opera, literature, video clips, and daily items.

By F.W.J. Schelling

Translated right here into English for the 1st time, F. W. J. Schelling's 1842 lectures at the Philosophy of Mythology are an early instance of interdisciplinary considering. In trying to express the improvement of the idea that of the divine Godhead in and during a number of mythological structures (particularly of historic Greece, Egypt, and the close to East), Schelling develops the concept that many philosophical recommendations are born of religious-mythological notions. In so doing, he brings jointly the fundamental relatedness of the advance of philosophical platforms, human language, background, old artwork types, and non secular idea. alongside the best way, he engages in analyses of contemporary philosophical perspectives concerning the origins of philosophy's conceptual abstractions, in addition to literary and philological analyses of old literature and poetry.

By John Lindow

ISBN-10: 1576072177

ISBN-13: 9781576072172

The booklet describes the pagan origins of Scandinavia, the interplay among the Vikings and different Europeans, and the concept that of time in Norse mythology, and offers a dictionary of deities, topics, and ideas. With 2 hundred entries of as much as 4 pages every one, the dictionary comprises either recognized characters like Thor and minor figures reminiscent of Gleipnir, the "fetter with which the wolf Fenrir was once eventually bound." additionally it is extra references approximately Viking and medieval Scandinavia, archaeology, etymology, the conversion of Iceland, different encyclopedias, and more.

By Richmond Lattimore, David Grene, Mark Griffith, Glenn W. Most

ISBN-10: 022603609X

ISBN-13: 9780226036090

Greek Tragedies, quantity III comprises Aeschylus’s “The Eumenides,” translated through Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles’s “Philoctetes,” translated through David Grene; Sophocles’s “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by way of Robert Fitzgerald; Euripides’s “The Bacchae,” translated via William Arrowsmith; and Euripides’s “Alecestis,” translated via Richmond Lattimore.

Sixty years in the past, the college of Chicago Press undertook a momentous undertaking: a brand new translation of the Greek tragedies that might be the last word source for academics, scholars, and readers. They succeeded. less than the specialist administration of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, these translations mixed accuracy, poetic immediacy, and readability of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in an English so energetic and compelling that they continue to be the normal translations. at the present time, Chicago is taking pains to make sure that our Greek tragedies stay the top English-language models during the twenty-first century.

In this hugely expected 3rd version, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. such a lot have rigorously up-to-date the translations to deliver them even toward the traditional Greek whereas holding the vibrancy for which our English types are recognized. This version additionally comprises brand-new translations of Euripides’ Medea, the kids of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia one of the Taurians, fragments of misplaced performs by means of Aeschylus, and the surviving component to Sophocles’s satyr-drama The Trackers. New introductions for every play supply crucial information regarding its first creation, plot, and reception in antiquity and past. moreover, every one quantity contains an advent to the lifestyles and paintings of its tragedian, in addition to notes addressing textual uncertainties and a word list of names and areas pointed out within the plays.

In addition to the recent content material, the volumes were reorganized either inside of and among volumes to mirror the main updated scholarship at the order within which the performs have been initially written. the result's a collection of good-looking paperbacks destined to introduce new generations of readers to those foundational works of Western drama, artwork, and lifestyles.

By Robert Graves, Raphael Patai

Review
'There is eloquence, wit and a proper shapeliness in abundance from first to last.' - Michael Glover, monetary instances.

'While poetry faculties got here and went, Graves went on writing until eventually his demise in 1985, in a sublime, classically encouraged style.' - Andrew Crumey, Scotland on Sunday.

No one else bargains his targeted blend of eroticism, nightmare and epigram.' - Sean O'Brien, The Guardian.

About the Author
Robert Graves was once the writer of I, Claudius, The White Goddess, and Greek Myths. He used to be a poet, classical student, novelist, and critic. Raphael Patai used to be an anthropologist, Jewish folklorist, and biblical pupil. He was once the writer of guy and the Temple and Jewish Seafaring in old Times.

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This exhaustive exploration of the Hebrew myths and the ebook of Genesis resulted from a amazing collaboration among one pupil raised as a strict Protestant and one raised as a strict Jew. It is going past Christian biblical and Judaic fable and contains midrashes, folks stories, apocryphal texts, and different vague resources to increase and whole the tales. An exciting view of the suppressed and censored pre-biblical bills is the outcome, besides a wealthy experience of a tradition along with oral and literary traditions, the place the religious is deeply rooted in panorama and history.

By Melvin Burgess

ISBN-10: 1416936157

ISBN-13: 9781416936152

Half I
London is in ruins, a as soon as hugely complicated urban now a gated desert. inside its partitions, a bloody battle rages among clans. desire is sparse, however the humans think the gods have risen from the useless.
Odin himself has come to play a component within the lives of 2 twins, a brother and sister from the Volson extended family. Siggy and Signy needs to come to grips with their future as London's destiny teeters at the fringe of a knife....

By John Barth

ISBN-10: 0618131701

ISBN-13: 9780618131709

In Chimera John Barth injects his signature wit into the stories of Scheherezade of the Thousand and One Nights, Perseus, the slayer of Medusa, and Bellerophon, who tamed the winged horse Pegasus. In a publication that the Washington publish referred to as “stylishly maned, tragically songful, and serpentinely elegant,” Barth retells those stories from various views, interpreting the myths’ dating to truth and their resonance with the modern global. A winner of the nationwide ebook Award, this feisty, witty, occasionally bawdy publication provoked Playboy to remark, “There’s each likelihood on the earth that John Barth is a genius.”