Category: Mythology

By Apollodorus

ISBN-10: 0192839241

ISBN-13: 9780192839244

The one paintings of its sort to outlive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a special consultant to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan warfare.

Apollodorus' Library has been used as a resource ebook via classicists from the time of its compilation within the 1st-2nd century BC to the current, influencing writers from antiquity to Robert Graves. It presents a whole heritage of Greek fantasy, telling the tale of every of the good households of heroic mythology, and some of the adventures linked to the most heroes and heroines, from Jason and Perseus to Heracles and Helen of Troy. As a first-rate resource for Greek fantasy, as a reference paintings, and as a sign of ways the Greeks themselves considered their legendary traditions, the Library is crucial to somebody who has an curiosity in classical mythology.

Robin Hard's obtainable and fluent translation is supplemented by means of complete notes, a map and entire genealogical tables. The creation supplies an in depth account of the Library's resources and situates it in the attention-grabbing narrative traditions of Greek mythology.

Readership: basically undergraduate classes in college classics departments; additionally undergraduates in English literature, drama, non secular reports, common readers.

By Tera Lynn Childs

ISBN-10: 1436209838

ISBN-13: 9781436209830

While Phoebe's mother returns from Greece with a brand new husband and plans to maneuver to an island within the Aegean Sea, Phoebe's well-plotted senior 12 months turns into historic heritage. Now, rather than having fun with a victorious tune season and making plans for faculty along with her top pals, Phoebe is making an attempt to maintain her head above water on the überexclusive Academy. If it isn't difficult sufficient being the recent child at school, Phoebe's classmates are all descendents of the Greek gods! whilst you're operating opposed to teammates with superpowers, facing a stepsister from Hades, and nursing a weigh down on a boy who's particularly actually a god, the drama takes on mythic proportions!

By E. M. Berens

ISBN-10: 076614870X

ISBN-13: 9780766148703

The writer units ahead of the reader a life like photo of the deities of classical instances as they have been conceived and worshipped by way of the ancients themselves, and thereby to evoke within the minds of younger scholars a wish to turn into extra in detail familiar with the noble productions of classical antiquity. the purpose was once to render the legends, which shape the second one component of this paintings, an image of outdated Greek lifestyles; its customs, superstitions, and princely hospitalities, for which cause they're given at a little bit higher size than is common in works of this sort.

By Joseph Campbell

ISBN-10: 0140194614

ISBN-13: 9780140194616

What's a thoroughly functioning mythology and what are its features? will we use myths to assist relieve our sleek nervousness, or do they assist foster it? In Myths to dwell by means of, Joseph Campbell explores the iconic strength of the common myths that impression our lives day-by-day and examines the myth-making procedure from the primitive previous to the fast current, retuning continuously to the resource from which all mythology springs: the inventive imagination.

Campbell stresses that the borders dividing the Earth were shattered; that myths and religions have consistently the definite easy archetypes and are not any longer unique to a unmarried humans, area, or faith. He exhibits how we needs to realize their universal denominators and make allowance this information to be of use in enjoyable human capability everywhere.

By Nathaniel Hawthorne

ISBN-10: 0486432092

ISBN-13: 9780486432090

From one in all America's maximum writers come those vintage stories of magical creatures and adventures written specially for kids. listed here are the tales of King Midas, the guy who was once capable of flip every thing he touched into gold; Hercules, the best and most powerful hero of all time; the Gorgons, merciless witches with snakes for hair; and lots of different wonderful warriors and evil monsters. contains "The Gorgon's Head," "The Golden Touch," "The Paradise of Children," "The 3 Golden Apples," "The dazzling Pitchers," and "The Chimaera."

By Johnny Hicklenton

Johnny Hicklenton was once considered one of Britain's top comedian e-book artists, who took his personal existence in March 2010 with the help of Dignitas in Zurich. a hundred Months is an apocalyptic parable of environmental devastation written and drawn in fore wisdom of his personal approaching demise. An excessive, hallucinatory tale with overtones of Dostoevsky's 'Legend of the Grand Inquisitor' and art of breathtaking depth, it's the crowning success of an excellent profession, a real image novel that engages final subject matters of lifestyles, demise and salvation. debatable, haunting and tortured in all senses, it's going to necessarily gas debate round the problems with taking one's personal lifestyles. features a foreword by means of Pat Mills.x

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The ultimate paintings of a comics visionary, this severe, hallucinatory tale with art of breathtaking depth is a real picture novel, enticing final subject matters of lifestyles, dying, and salvation.

The past due John Hicklenton was once one among Britain's top comedian publication artists, well-known for the brutal, visceral draughtsmanship he dropped at the 2000AD/Judge Dredd titles and Nemesis the Warlock. His ultimate photograph novel is a parable of environmental devastation, depicting the search of Mara, Warrior and Earth Goddess, as she seeks revenge opposed to the Longpig: a Satanic personification of capitalism, pink in teeth and claw, whose fans, a legion of the damned, glance rather a lot like us. the area of the Longpig is wealthy in killing fields and scenes of mass crucifixion that keep in mind Goya, Blake, and Bacon, and represents a real crossover of the image novel shape with tremendous artwork. John took his personal lifestyles with assistance from an assisted demise crew, following a heroic fight with a number of sclerosis. This ebook was once drawn and written in foreknowledge of his forthcoming demise, and its perception into common subject matters of existence, loss of life, salvation, and damnation turns out to come back from a spot among worlds. Its phrases these of a prophet, its art transcending the comedian ebook shape, a hundred Months will redefine the grownup photograph novel.

By Patricia Monaghan

ISBN-10: 0816045240

ISBN-13: 9780816045242

This one-volume encyclopedia at the myths and folklore of the Celtic lands - eire, Scotland, Celtic Britain, Wales, Brittany and primary France, Galicia and the smaller islands the place the Ceits lived - bargains a wide review of the weather that represent and represent Celtic mythology and folklore.

By Thomas Bulfinch

ISBN-10: 0486114872

ISBN-13: 9780486114873

First released in 1855, Bulfinch's Mythology has brought generations of readers to the nice myths of Greece and Rome, in addition to known legends of Norse mythology, medieval, and chivalric stories, Oriental fables, and extra.

Readers have lengthy fashionable Bulfinch's types for the ability with which he wove a number of models of a story right into a coherent complete, the energy of his storytelling, and his ample cross-references to poetry and portray, demonstrating the connection of literature and paintings. Now [i]The Age of Fable, the 1st part of the Mythology, comes in this low-cost, hugely readable version.

Drawing at the works of Homer, Ovid, Virgil, and different classical authors, in addition to a tremendous trove of reports concerning the Norse gods and heroes, The Age of Fable deals vigorous retellings of the myths of the Greek and Roman gods: Venus and Adonis, Jupiter and Juno, Daphne and Apollo, and so forth.

The myths and legends so vividly retold during this quantity underlie a lot of the paintings, literature, and tradition of Western civilization. As Bulfinch placed it, "Without an information of mythology, a lot of the based literature of our personal language can't be understood and appreciated."

With this low-cost version of The Age of Fable, readers can immerse themselves in those seminal myths, expanding their appreciation and figuring out of Western tradition, whereas having fun with the myths in simple terms because the nice tales they're.

By Robert Holdstock

ISBN-10: 0765307316

ISBN-13: 9780765307316

A haunting access on this planet myth Award-winning Mythago Cycle

In Mythago Wood, Robert Holdstock gave us an tricky global spun from the tales of Irish and English mythology, a very good wooded area steeped in secret and legend, whose middle comprises secrets and techniques that might swap all who behold them.

Young Tallis is one such seeker. whilst she was once simply an toddler, she misplaced her brother Harry to Ryhope wooden. Her adolescent fancies now reason her to suspect that he's nonetheless alive---and in grave possibility. Tallis follows Harry into the primal Otherworld armed purely with magic, mask, and clues left through her grandfather. ultimately the primitive wooded area supplies technique to Lavondyss itself, a desirable and bad realm the place she is pressured to confront the mythagos, actual manifestations of the legends of humanity's collective unconscious.

Join Tallis on her quest into the last word unknown, and be invited into one of many most interesting and such a lot compelling mythologies you are going to ever come across.

"A stunningly reliable publication . . . conveys the haunting energy of outdated heroes and misplaced gods."
--Locus

"Magical . . . it's infrequent to discover a sequel which measures as much as its unique; yet Lavondyss surpasses it."
--Times Literary Supplement

By David Malouf

ISBN-10: 0307378934

ISBN-13: 9780307378934

In his first novel in additional than a decade, award-winning writer David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer’s Iliad—one of the main recognized passages in all of literature.
 
This is the tale of the connection among grieving males at warfare: fierce Achilles, who has misplaced his cherished Patroclus within the siege of Troy; and woeful Priam, whose son Hector killed Patroclus and used to be in flip savaged by way of Achilles. A relocating story of anguish, sorrow, and redemption, Ransom is incandescent in its tender and strong lyricism and its unspoken relevant that we think our lives within the glow of fellow feeling.