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Author : Eliza Robbins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Elements of Mythology written by Eliza Robbins and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Matyszak
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500770697
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories (Myths) written by Philip Matyszak and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of intriguing facts and diverting stories—the ideal introduction to the myths and tales that lie at the heart of Western culture. Who was Pandora and what was in her famous box? How did Achilles get his Achilles heel? What exactly is a Titan? And why is one computer virus known as a Trojan horse? The myths of ancient Greece and Rome can seem bewilderingly complex, yet they are so much a part of modern life and discourse that most of us know fragments of them. This comprehensive companion takes these fragments and weaves them into an accessible and enjoyable narrative, guiding the reader through the basic stories of classical myth. Philip Matyszak explains the sequences of events and introduces the major plots and characters, from the origins of the world and the labors of Hercules to the Trojan War and the voyages of Odysseus and Aeneas. He brings to life an exotic cast of heroes and monsters, wronged women and frighteningly arbitrary yet powerful gods. He also shows how the stories have survived and greatly influenced later art and culture, from Renaissance painting and sculpture to modern opera, literature, movies, and everyday products.
Author : William F. Hansen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195300351
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Classical Mythology written by William F. Hansen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical Mythology offers newcomers and long-time enthusiasts new ways to navigate the world of Greek and Roman myths, beginning by exploring the landscapes where the myths are set. It then provides a richly detailed timeline of mythic episodes from the origin of the cosmos to the end of the Heroic Age--plus an illustrated mythological dictionary listing significant characters, places, events, objects, and concepts.
Author : Malcolm Day
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780733319204
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)
Download or read book 100 Characters from Classical Mythology written by Malcolm Day and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mind-expanding and entertaining, this intriguing book charts 100 of the most important characters from Greco-Roman mythology, from the primordial deities to the great gods of Olympus and the shadowy inhabitants of Hades. Addressing universal themes such as love, jealousy, anger, ambition, deceit, and beauty, their stories are as relevant today as they were in ancient times.
Author : William Hansen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691195927
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths written by William Hansen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, talking animals, people who suddenly change sex, men who give birth, the temporarily insane and the permanently thick-witted, delicate sensualists, incompetent seers, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh-these are just some of the colorful characters who feature in the unforgettable stories that ancient Greeks and Romans told in their daily lives. Together they created an incredibly rich body of popular oral stories that include, but range well beyond, mythology-from heroic legends, fairy tales, and fables to ghost stories, urban legends, and jokes.
Author : Helen Morales
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192804766
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction written by Helen Morales and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-08-23 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Zeus to Europa, to Pan and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome continue to pervade the numerous facets of our existence. The author explores the rich history and varying interpretations of classical myth in both high art and popular culture as well as its ongoing influence in modern society.
Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780222793
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Myths Of The Greeks And Romans written by Michael Grant and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2011-12-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myths of the Greeks and Romans is an essential guide to ancient literature The myths told by the Greeks and Romans are as important as their history for our understanding of what they believed, thought and felt, and of what they expressed in writing and visual art. Mythology was inextricably interwoven with the entire fabric of their public and private lives. This book discusses not only the purely fictional myths, fairy-tales and folk-tales but the sagas and legends which have some historical grounding. This is not a dictionary of stories, rather a personal selection of the most important and memorable. Michael Grant re-tells these marvellous tales, and then explores the different ways in which they have appeared throughout literature. It is an inspiring study, filled with quotations from literary sources, which gives the reader a fascinating exposition of ancient culture as well as an understanding of how vital the classical world has been in shaping the western culture of today.
Author : Eliza Robbins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783337161309
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Elements of Mythology written by Eliza Robbins and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elements of Mythology - Classical Fables of the Greeks and Romans. 21st Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1860. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author : Antoine Brazouski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313069417
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Children's Books on Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology written by Antoine Brazouski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1993-11-23 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classical heritage continues to impact modern culture in many ways. This bibliography lists and describes those books on Greek and Roman mythology from the mid-19th century to the present which are useful for introducing children to the classical world. The volume begins with a brief history of children's books on classical mythology in the United States. A chapter then discusses the various techniques through which classical myths were adapted for children. The annotated bibliography follows, with each entry including a critical annotation on how closely the work adheres to the original myth. Each entry also includes an indication of the grade level of each book. Indexes allow the user to locate sources according to title, illustrator, time period, myth, and subject.
Author : Luke Roman
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438126395
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology written by Luke Roman and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek and Roman mythology has fascinated people for more than two millennia, and its influence on cultures throughout Europe, America, North Africa, and the Middle East attests to the universal appeal of the stories. This title examines the best-known figures of Greek and Roman mythology together with the great works of classic literature.
Author : Bruce Louden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429828047
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Greek Myth and the Bible written by Bruce Louden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Gilgamesh epic, we have known that the Bible imports narratives from outside of Israelite culture, refiguring them for its own audience. Only more recently, however, has come the realization that Greek culture is also a prominent source of biblical narratives. Greek Myth and the Bible argues that classical mythological literature and the biblical texts were composed in a dialogic relationship. Louden examines a variety of Greek myths from a range of sources, analyzing parallels between biblical episodes and Hesiod, Euripides, Argonautic myth, selections from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and Homeric epic. This fascinating volume offers a starting point for debate and discussion of these cultural and literary exchanges and adaptations in the wider Mediterranean world and will be an invaluable resource to students of the Hebrew Bible and the influence of Greek myth.
Author : Lord Henry Home Kames
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book An Abridgment of Elements of Criticism written by Lord Henry Home Kames and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Luba Freedman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107001196
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Classical Myths in Italian Renaissance Painting written by Luba Freedman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book is about a new development in Italian Renaissance art; its aim is to show how artists and humanists came together to effect this revolution, it is important because this is a long-ignored but crucial aspect of the Italian Renaissance, showing us why the masterpieces we take for granted are the way they are, and thre is no competitor in the field. The book sheds light on some of the world's greatest masterpirces of art, including Botticelli's Venus, Leonardo's Leda, Raphael's Galatea, and Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Aesop
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781853261282
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Aesop's Fables written by Aesop and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1994 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.
Author : Sheila Murnaghan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191091952
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Childhood and the Classics written by Sheila Murnaghan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissemination of classical material to children has long been a major form of popularization with far-reaching effects, although until very recently it has received almost no attention within the growing field of classical reception studies. This volume explores the ways in which children encountered the world of ancient Greece and Rome in Britain and the United States over a century-long period beginning in the 1850s, as well as adults' literary responses to their own childhood encounters with antiquity. Rather than discussing the role of classics in education, it focuses on books read for enjoyment, and on two genres of children's literature in particular: the myth collection and the historical novel. The tradition of myths retold as children's stories is traced in the work of writers and illustrators from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Kingsley to Roger Lancelyn Green and Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire, while the discussion of historical fiction focuses particularly on the roles of nationality and gender in the construction of an ancient world for modern children. The book concludes with an investigation of the connections between childhood and antiquity made by writers for adults, including James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and H.D. Recognition of the fundamental role in children's literature of adults' ideas about what children want or need is balanced throughout by attention to the ways in which child readers have made such works their own. The formative experiences of antiquity discussed throughout help to explain why despite growing uncertainty about the appeal of antiquity to modern children, the classical past remains perennially interesting and inspiring.
Author : John Fiore
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595204007
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Symbolic Mythology written by John Fiore and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symbolic Mythology is the essential guide to understanding the myths of the classical world. Through the author’s unique mix of scholarly analysis and exciting storytelling, the divine, the heroic, and the monstrous become easily accessible to everyone from the casual reader to the serious student of myth. Revelations abound in this original, entertaining, and enlightening study of the myths of ancient Greece and Rome.
Author : E. M. Berens
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome written by E. M. Berens and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome " is a comprehensive mythology collection, presenting all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of major mythological stories. The author, thoroughly details each Greek and Roman god, goddess, hero, demi-god and creature and gives the reader a clear and succinct idea of the religious beliefs of the ancients. An exceptional book for those interested in Greek or Roman mythology.
