18 books like Mythe et pensée chez les Grecs
The Dispossessed
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the planet, Anarres, to challenge…
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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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Historical and miscellaneous questions for the use of young people
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Historical and miscellaneous questions
Historical and Miscellaneous Questions by Richmal Mangnall. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1852 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
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Euripidis Tragoediae
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Tragoediae
v.1. Hercules furens. Troades. Medea. Hippolytus. Oedipus -- v.2. Agamemnon. Thyestes. Hercules Oetaeus. Phoenissae. Octavia.
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Plato and Platonism
Plato’s ideas have had an enduring and important impact on philosophy, science, and all people, from the ancient kings to modern day man and to all people in between. He passionately touches on the topics of love, virtue, politics, the soul, and ethics in his dialogues. Plato and Platonism demystifies the complex roots of Hellenic philosophy by explaining the impact Plato had on the world when he…
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Psychology
While this volume is written as a series of lectures and in a somewhat free and easy style, every effort has been made to present facts in unmutilated form and to state theoretical positions with accuracy. In approaching subjective psychology for the first time, the reader meets with one great difficulty. He comes in from the world of things-a world which he can manipulate, hold up, examine and…
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De caelo
Page one of Aristotle's ''On the Heavens'', from an edition published in 1837
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A story of the golden age
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,…
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Εὐθύφρων
Με τη λογοτεχνία αιώνων, είναι αναπόφευκτο ότι κάποιοι θα πέσουν στα σκαλιά. Κυνηγάμε έργα δημόσιου τομέα και τα αποκαθιστούμε για να μην χαθούν στον κόσμο.
Ποιοι είμαστε; Είμαστε η Cairn Press. Το υπόβαθρό μας είναι στο σχέδιο, τις εκδόσεις, την τυπογραφία και την τεχνολογία. Αυτές οι δεξιότητες τροφοδοτούν την αποστολή μας να δημιουργήσουμε τα υψηλότερης ποιότητας ηλεκτρονικά βιβλία δημόσιου…
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