18 books like Psyche
Psyche
Shares Soul, Immortality, Cults, Greece with this book.
Historical and miscellaneous questions for the use of young people
Shares Greek Mythology, History with this book.
Historical and miscellaneous questions
Historical and miscellaneous questions
Shares Greek Mythology, History with this book.
The heroes
Stories based on the Greek myths about Perseus, Jason and the Argonauts, Theseus, and the twelve labors of Heracles.
Shares Greece, Classical Mythology, Greek Mythology
The Luck of Troy
12 year old Nicostratus, carried off from Greece as a child with Helen, his mother, by Paris of Troy, helps Odysseus to conquer Troy for Greece.
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A story of the golden age
Shares Classical Mythology, Greek Mythology with this book.
The Trojan War
Retells legends of the heroes of the Trojan War, which began with Paris of Troy's abduction of Helen, wife of Menelaus, lord of Greece.
Shares Greece, Classical Mythology, Greek Mythology
Men and gods
These tales cover the range of Greek mythology, including the creation story of Deucalion and Pyrrha, the heroic adventures of Perseus, the fall of Icarus, Cupid and Psyche's tale of love, and the tragic history of Oedipus and Thebes.
Shares Greece, Classical Mythology, Greek Mythology
De sapientia veterum
De sapientia veterum
Shares Classical Mythology, Greek Mythology with this book.
Φαίδων
After an interval of some months or years, and at Phlius, a town of Peloponnesus, the tale of the last hours of Socrates is narrated to Echecrates and other Phliasians by Phaedo the 'beloved disciple.' The Dialogue necessarily takes the form of a narrative, because Socrates has to be described acting as well as speaking. The minutest particulars of the event are interesting to distant friends,…
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Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion
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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Mythe et société en Grèce ancienne
This book is a stimulating and largely persuasive collection of essays on the interrelations between social institutions and mythical thinking in ancient Greek society. What is fundamental to the author's approach is a determination to see the meaning of Greek myth and of Greek social institutions in patterns of association and opposition, in the articulations of a system of ideas. It is in this…
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The Book of the Dead
The Book of the Dead is the title now commonly given to the great collection of funerary texts which the ancient Egyptian scribes composed for the benefit of the dead. These consist of spells and incantations, hymns and litanies, magical formulae and names, words of power and prayers, and they are found cut or painted on walls of pyramids and tombs, and painted on coffins and sarcophagi and rolls…
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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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Mystagogus poeticus, or, The muses interpreter
Mystagogus poeticus, or, The muses interpreter
Shares Classical Mythology, Greek Mythology with this book.
Grecian and Roman mythology
Shares Classical Mythology, Greek Mythology with this book.
Gods and heroes of the Greeks
Gods and heroes of the Greeks
Shares Greek Mythology with this book.
Old Greek Stories
In this book retelling of old Greek stories involving mythological heroes and their adventures.
Shares Greek Mythology