18 books like A book of myths

What to read after A book of myths — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Left Behind Tim F. LaHaye · 1995 · ★ 3.9 · 343p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Without any warning, passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats. Terror and chaos slowly spread not only through the plane but also worldwide as unusual events continue to unfold. For those who have been left behind, the apocalypse has just begun Shares: Community pick

Inferno Dante Alighieri · 1767 · ★ 4.0 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Demanding Dante, after becoming lost on the path of life, is led by Virgil into Hell to begin his journey back to the light of God. Shares: Community pick

The Myths of Plato Πλάτων · 1905 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Challenging tr., with introductory and other observations Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths Ingri Parin D'Aulaire · 1962 · ★ 4.4 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A re-telling of the myths of ancient Greece for children. Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

Mythology Jane Ellen Harrison · 1924 · ★ 4.0 · 155p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature. In Harrison's preface to this remarkable book, she writes that J. G. Frazer's work had become part and parcel of her "mental furniture" and that of others studying primitive religion. Today, those who… Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

Margaret and her friends Caroline Wells Healey Dall · 1895 · 162p · ≈ 5h · Challenging The only firsthand account of one of Fuller's famous "Conversations," the first of which to men were invited. Guests included Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sophia and George Ripley, Sophia and Elizabeth Peabody, Caroline Sturgis and Jones Very. Dall, who went on the become a major figure in the woman's rights movement in Massachusetts, includes direct quotes attributed to Fuller and… Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

Cyclops Tells All Nancy Loewen · 2014 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate OF COURSE you think my actions were horrific and heartless, that dining on Odysseus' men was unforgivable. You don't know the other side of the myth. Well, let me tell you... Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer Alfred John Church · 1906 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Three thousand years ago the world was still young. The western continent was a huge wilderness, and the greater part of Europe was inhabited by savage and wandering tribes. Only a few nations at the eastern end of the Mediterranean and in the neighbouring parts of Asia had learned to dwell in cities, to use a written language, to make laws for themselves, and to live in a more orderly fashion.… Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

The Greek mythology Alexander Duthie · 1932 · 168p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

Fallen Linda Castillo · 2021 · ★ 4.5 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo’s new thriller Fallen, a rebellious Amish woman leaves the Plain life, but the secrets she takes with her will lead Chief of Police Kate Burkholder down a dark path to danger and death.When a young woman is found murdered in a Painters Mill motel, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is shocked to discover she once knew the victim. Rachael Schwartz… Shares: Community pick

Euripidis Tragoediae Euripides · 1823 · 161p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

A story of the golden age James Baldwin · 1887 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Challenging You have heard of Homer, and of the two wonderful poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which bear his name. No one knows whether these poems were composed by Homer, or whether they are the work of many different poets. And, in fact, it matters very little about their authorship. Everybody agrees that they are the grandest poems ever sung or written or read in this world; and yet, how few persons,… Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

Modern mythology Andrew Lang · 1897 · 169p · ≈ 5h · Challenging xxiv p., 1 l., 212 p. 23 cm. Shares: Mythology

Myth and ritual in Christianity Alan Watts · 1953 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A penetrating and wide-ranging study of mythological processes and their particular manifestation in Christian religion, Alan Watt's Myth and Ritual in Christianity is widely considered a classic. Using the lens of the "doctrine of mystical tradition", Watts explores the development of church doctrine in relation to the procession of seasons and finds, contrary to many contemporary critics, that… Shares: Mythology

World mythology Donna Rosenberg · 1986 · ★ 4.4 · 561p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Shares: Mythology

Chimera John Barth · 1972 · ★ 3.7 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Barth retells the tales of Scheherezade of the Thousand and One Nights, Perseus, and Bellerophon from varying perspectives, examining the myths' relationship to reality and their resonance with the contemporary world. Dunyazade, Scheherazade's kid sister, holds the destiny of herself and the prince who holds her captive. Perseus, the demigod who slew the Gorgon Medusa, finds himself at forty… Shares: Mythology

Eros Teri Temple · 2012 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate None (Hesiod)Hesiod, Theogony https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D104 116–122] states that Gaia, Tartarus and Eros come after Chaos, but this does not necessarily mean that they are the offspring of Chaos. Gantz, pp.… Shares: Mythology

Comparative mythology F. Max Müller · 1909 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Comparative mythology is the comparison of myths from different cultures in an attempt to identify shared themes and characteristics.Littleton, p. 32 Comparative mythology has served a variety of academic purposes. For example, scholars have used the relationships between different myths to trace the development of religions and cultures, to propose common origins for myths from different… Shares: Mythology

About the book A book of myths →