18 books like The Routledge handbook of Greek mythology

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Ancient Greek cults Jennifer Larson · 2007 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Using archaeological, epigraphic and literary sources, and incorporating current scholarly theories, this volume offers an accessible account of the Greek gods for undergraduate students. Shares: Paganism & Neo-Paganism, Antiquities & Archaeology, Body, Mythologie grecque

A Handbook of Greek Mythology H. J. Rose · 1928 · 363p · ≈ 12h · Challenging 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… Shares: Paganism & Neo-Paganism, Antiquities & Archaeology, Body, Mythologie grecque

Interpretations of Greek Mythology (Routledge Revivals) Jan N. Bremmer · 2013 · 295p · ≈ 9h · Moderate 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,… Shares: Mythologie grecque, Greek Mythology, Mythology

The Greek gods Bernard Evslin · 1966 · ★ 4.3 · 116p · ≈ 3h · Moderate The biography of all the gods of ancient Greece. Shares: Antiquities & Archaeology, Greek Mythology, Mythology

Fairy Tale in the Ancient World Graham Anderson · 2000 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In this, the first modern study of the ancient fairytale, Graham Anderson asks whether the familiar children's fairytale of today existed in the ancient world. He examines texts from the classical period and finds many stories which resemble those we know today, including: a Jewish Egyptian Cinderella a Snow White whose enemy is the goddess Artemis a Pied Piper at Troy. He puts forward many… Shares: Antiquities & Archaeology, Body, Mythologie grecque, Greek Mythology

L'Odyssée Όμηρος · 1933 · 146p · ≈ 4h · Challenging 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. Shares: Mythologie grecque, Greek Mythology

Mythology Edith Hamilton · 1969 · 359p · ≈ 11h · Moderate This deluxe edition of the world's most beloved, bestselling classic on Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology is stunningly illustrated with specially commissioned full-color plates and a beautiful gold-bordered pages. Since its original publication in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the world and established itself as a perennial bestseller. For nearly… Shares: Body, Greek Mythology, Religion, Mythology

The library Apollodorus of Athens · 1555 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. Shares: Mythologie grecque, Greek Mythology, Mythology

The Homeric gods Walter Friedrich Gustav Hermann Otto · 1929 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Challenging 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… Shares: Mythologie grecque, Greek Mythology, Religion, Mythology

Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew Josephine Preston Peabody · 1897 · 116p · ≈ 3h · Challenging "Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew" from Josephine Preston Peabody. American poet and dramatist (1874-1922). Shares: Mythologie grecque, Greek Mythology

Python Joseph Eddy Fontenrose · 1959 · 616p · ≈ 20h · Moderate 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. Shares: Mythologie grecque, Greek Mythology, Mythology

A book of myths Jeanie Lang · 1915 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Challenging 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… Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

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

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