18 books like Bibliotheca
Interpretations of Greek Mythology (Routledge Revivals)
Interpretations of Greek Mythology, first published in1987, builds on the innovative work of Walter Burkert and the ‘Paris school’ of Jean-Pierre Vernant, and represents a renewal of interpretation of Greek mythology. The contributors to this volume present a variety of approaches to the Greek myths, all of which eschew a monolithic or exclusively structuralist hermeneutic method. Specifically,…
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L'Odyssée
The Odyssey (French title: LOdyssée) is a 2016 French-Belgian biographical adventure film directed by Jérôme Salle and written by Salle and Laurent Turner, based on the non-fiction book Capitaine de La Calypso by Albert Falco and Yves Paccalet. The film stars Lambert Wilson, Pierre Niney, and Audrey Tautou.
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The library
Attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born c. 180 BCE), but probably composed in the first or second century BCE, the Library provides a grand summary of Greek myths and heroic legends about the origin and early history of the world and of the Hellenic people.
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Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew
"Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew" from Josephine Preston Peabody. American poet and dramatist (1874-1922).
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Introduction to mythology
What mythology is and how it has been explained - the solar theory, the ghost theory, the ritual theory - set out by a working folklorist for readers who wanted the arguments before the stories.
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The Homeric gods
In many respects, this book is considered to be the best guide ever written on Homeric religion. The analysis by W. F. Otto, while being very careful in terms of interpretation, denotes an open consonance of the author with the spirit - sometimes brutal and, for our mentality, immoral - of Greek polytheism. A thrilling and amazing journey to Olympus. This is a new edition of the Pantheon Books…
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Python
If you are an engineer, a researcher, or a hobbyist, and you are interested in robotics and want to build your own robot, this book is for you. Readers are assumed to be new to robotics but should have experience with Python.
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A book of myths
Just as a little child holds out its hands to catch the sunbeams, to feel and to grasp what, so its eyes tell it, is actually there, so, down through the ages, men have stretched out their hands in eager endeavour to know their God. And because only through the human was the divine knowable, the old peoples of the earth made gods of their heroes and not unfrequently endowed these gods with as…
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The Myths of Plato
tr., with introductory and other observations
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D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
A re-telling of the myths of ancient Greece for children.
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Mythology
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…
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Margaret and her friends
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…
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Cyclops Tells All
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...
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The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer
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.…
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The Greek mythology
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Ancient Greek cults
Using archaeological, epigraphic and literary sources, and incorporating current scholarly theories, this volume offers an accessible account of the Greek gods for undergraduate students.
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A Handbook of Greek Mythology
In this new and substantially revised edition of H. J. Rose's classic survey and analysis of the evolution and tradition of Greek myth, Robin Hard adds various features which bring the work up-to-date with contemporary scholarship and address the needs of students. a new preface analysing and contextualising H. J. Rose's attitude to myth a new chapter devoted to the epic and other poetic…
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Greek Myths (Mini Classics)
A collection of Greek myths for children.
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