Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
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Category: Mythology
Natalie Haynes is the nation's muse' Adam Rutherford The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories. Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay o ...Show more
The Celestial Hunter by Roberto Calasso
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Category: Mythology
'A poetic, erudite exploration of history and myth' Financial TimesAn unforgettable journey through centuries and across cultures to the pivotal moment in evolution - when humans did something that no species had yet tried - when we became the hunter and no longer the prey. Informed by Greek and Egyptia ...Show more
Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold by Stephen Fry
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Category: Mythology | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between ...Show more
In Ghostly Japan: Japanese Legends of Ghosts, Yokai, Yurei and Other Oddities by Lafcadio Hearn
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Category: Mythology
'Think not that dreams appear to the dreamer only at night, the dream of this world of pain appears to us even by day.' In this book, famed author Lafcadio Hearn presents 14 fascinating stories — including deathless ghosts and yokai, local folklore and haunted places, as well as Buddhist traditions. Th ...Show more
Treasury Of Folklore - Seas And Rivers by Dee Dee Chainey, Willow Winsham
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Category: Mythology
Enthralling tales of the sea, rivers and lakes from around the globe. Folklore of the seas and rivers has a resonance in cultures all over the world. Watery hopes, fears and dreams are shared by all peoples where rivers flow and waves crash. This fascinating book covers English sailor superstitions and ...Show more
Classical Mythology A to Z: An Encyclopedia of Gods & Goddesses, Heroes & Heroines, Nymphs, Spirits, Monsters, and Places by Annette Giesecke
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Category: Mythology
An encyclopedic A-to-Z guide, this beautifully designed and illustrated volume offers hundreds of rich and fascinating definitions of 700 major and minor characters, creatures, and places of classical mythology. Classical Mythology A-to-Z is a comprehensive and engrossing guide to Greek and Roman mythol ...Show more
The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths by William Hansen (Introduction by, Edited and Translated by)
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Category: Mythology
The first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories--from myths and fairy tales to jokes Captured centaurs and satyrs, incompetent seers, people who suddenly change sex, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh--these are just some of the colorful characters ...Show more
Aesop's Fables - The Cruelty of the Gods by Carlo Gébler
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Category: Mythology
A witty, scatological illustrated version of the world's greatest collection of fables, allegedly written by a slave in the 5th century BC. A book for our times: as Gebler notes, Aesop has two subjects - the exercise of power and the experience of the powerless who endure life and all that it inflicts o ...Show more
Secret Commonwealth of Elves Fauns ... by Robert Kirk; Marina Warner (Introduction by)
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Category: Mythology
Late in the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, an Episcopalian minister in the Scottish Highlands, set out to collect his parishioners' many striking stories about elves, fairies, fauns, doppelgangers, wraiths, and other beings of, in Kirk's words, "a middle nature betwixt man and angel." For Kirk these ...Show more
Star Stories: Constellations and People by Anthony Aveni
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Category: Mythology
Follow an epic animal race, a quest for a disembodied hand, and an emu egg hunt in constellation stories from diverse culturesWe can see love, betrayal, and friendship in the heavens, if we know where to look. A world expert on cultural understandings of cosmology, Anthony Aveni provides an unconvention ...Show more
Chinese Fairy Tales and Legends - Gift Edition by Frederick H. Martens; Richard Wilhelm; Lucrezia Botti
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Category: Mythology
Fearless heroes, feisty princesses, sly magicians, terrifying dragons, talking foxes and miniature dogs. They all feature in this enthralling compendium of Chinese fairy tales and legends, along with an array of equally colourful characters and captivating plots.Although largely unknown in the West, the ...Show more
Mythologica - An Encyclopedia of Gods, Monsters and mortals from ancient Greece by Stephen P. Kershaw
35.00 AUD
Category: Mythology | Reading Level: very good
An illustrated encyclopedia of Greek mythology like no other, Mythologica features startlingly beautiful and exquisitely otherworldly portraits of mythological characters in eye-popping color from artist Victoria Topping and authoritative text from Classics scholar and Greek mythology expert Dr. Stephen ...Show more