Category: Mythology

By Gerald Morris, Aaron Renier

ISBN-10: 0547417411

ISBN-13: 9780547417417

Decades in the past, the storytellers say, the good King Arthur held courtroom along with his gallant Knights of the around desk. bad Givret, who's simply the shortest guy at courtroom, bears the brunt in their jokes. yet what he lacks in stature, Givret makes up for in brains—and earlier than he is familiar with it, his fast considering has landed him a spot on the recognized around desk! And so beginneth the intriguing and humorous adventures of Sir Givret the fast, awesome, and great.

By Jonathan Hickman, Mike Costa

It really is god-mageddon because the pantheons conflict for final rule. Gods from each religion are locked in mortal wrestle with the Earth because the spoils. JONATHAN HICKMAN brings the wrath of the divine to comics in God is lifeless! A small workforce of human resistance opponents adopt a covert project to recuperate the DNA of a fallen deity. yet can human sort, in all their conceitedness, have the ability to create their very own mystery weapon opposed to those all strong foes? The doomsday clock is ticking and with every one second we're relocating towards annihilation.

By Brodi Ashton

ISBN-10: 0062236415

ISBN-13: 9780062236418

An exhilarating new novella from the writer of the Everneath series!

Jack is trapped for eternity within the Tunnels whereas Nikki has controlled to stay away from Cole's clutch . . . for now. yet Cole is extra determined than ever to discover solutions approximately Nikki, his most sensible likelihood for taking on the throne of the underworld. How did she continue to exist the Feed? Can Cole locate one other Forfeit like her who can live to tell the tale it too?

Cole's quest leads him to the opposite facet of the area, to a mysterious, risky society often called the Delphinians, whose cost for info may be better than Cole can pay—a cost which may wreck Nikki. but if Cole makes an attempt to thieve the solutions as an alternative, his undertaking leads to catastrophe. confronted with centuries in a Delphinian dungeon, Cole is faced with questions he's been too scared to invite himself: Is he rather captivated with the throne—or is he enthusiastic about Nikki? and will she relatively supply him a brand new starting because the Everneath's king . . . or will she as an alternative result in his tragic end?

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By Almut-Barbara Renger

ISBN-10: 022604811X

ISBN-13: 9780226048116

While Oedipus met the Sphinx at the highway to Thebes, he did greater than solution a riddle—he spawned a fantasy that, instructed and retold, may turn into one in every of Western culture’s primary narratives approximately self-understanding. selecting the tale as a threshold myth—in which the hero crosses over into an unknown and unsafe realm the place ideas and bounds are usually not known—Oedipus and the Sphinx offers a clean account of this mythic stumble upon and the way it offers with the techniques of liminality and otherness. 

Almut-Barbara Renger assesses the story’s meanings and services in classical antiquity—from its presence in historic vase portray to its absence in Sophocles’s tragedy—before arriving at of its significant reworkings in eu modernity: the psychoanalytic idea of Sigmund Freud and the poetics of Jean Cocteau. via her readings, she highlights the ambiguous prestige of the Sphinx and divulges Oedipus himself to be a liminal creature, supplying key insights into Sophocles’s portrayal and developing a theoretical framework that organizes reviews of the myth’s reception within the 20th century.

Revealing the narrative of Oedipus and the Sphinx to be the very paradigm of a key transition skilled through all of humankind, Renger situates delusion among the competing claims of technology and paintings in an engagement that has very important implications for present debates in literary reports, psychoanalytic thought, cultural heritage, and aesthetics.

By Rick Riordan

ISBN-10: 1423101456

ISBN-13: 9781423101451

Whilst the goddess Artemis is going lacking, she is thought to were kidnapped.And now it's as much as Percy and his acquaintances to determine what occurred. who's robust sufficient to kidnap a goddess?  they need to locate Artemis earlier than the wintry weather solstice, while her effect at the Olympian Council may perhaps swing an enormous vote at the struggle with the titans. not just that, yet first Percy must clear up the secret of an extraordinary monster that Artemis used to be looking while she disappeared -- a monster rumored to be so strong it can ruin Olympus ceaselessly.

By Richard Shenkman

ISBN-10: 0062098861

ISBN-13: 9780062098863

A funny tackle international heritage debunks the myths that encompass Cleopatra, Nero, Robin Hood, King Arthur, Joan of Arc, and different old icons.

By Giambattista Vico

ISBN-10: 0521382904

ISBN-13: 9780521382908

This account of the fundamental subject matter of Vico's mature philosophy explores the query of even if philosophical theories can ever be greater than an highbrow expression of the underlying ideals of an age. the 1st entire English translation of the 1725 textual content, Vico's the 1st New technology ia now obtainable to a large, new readership. it really is observed via a word list, bibliography, chronology of Vico's existence and expository creation.

By Theresa Bane

ISBN-10: 0786444525

ISBN-13: 9780786444526

From the earliest days of oral historical past to the current, the vampire fable persists between mankind's deeply-rooted fears. This encyclopedia, with entries starting from "Abchanchu" to "Zmeus," contains approximately six hundred various species of old and mythological vampires, totally defined and certain.

By Marcel Detienne

ISBN-10: 2072042437

ISBN-13: 9782072042430

Qui a inventé los angeles mythologie ? Quelles sont les frontières de ce territoire où des histoires inoubliables et le plaisir de les conter semblent inséparables de l'exégèse et du désir de les interpréter ?Poisson soluble dans les eaux de l. a. mythologie, le mythe est une forme introuvable : ni style littéraire, ni récit spécifique. Mais parler de l. a. mythologie, hier et aujourd'hui, c'est toujours, plus ou moins explicitement, parler grec ou depuis los angeles Grèce. D'où l'urgence d'une enquête généalogique pour repenser l. a. mythologie comme objet de savoir autant que de tradition.

By Kate McMullan

ISBN-10: 1496500415

ISBN-13: 9781496500410

The Trojan warfare is over, yet now Odysseus has to discover his approach domestic to Ithaca...and in normal model, he's angered Poseidon adequate that the sea-god has determined to make his trip depressing (if now not impossible). yet Hades has a delicate spot for the long-gone warrior, so no matter if he's sworn to Poseidon he won't support Odysseus at once, he could possibly pull a number of strings...