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Gods and Heroes

Author : Korwin Briggs
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1523503785
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Gods and Heroes written by Korwin Briggs and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Original Superheroes. Before there was Batman, Wonder Woman, or Black Panther...there was Indra, Hindu king of gods, who battled a fearsome snake to save the world from drought. Athena, the powerful Greek goddess of wisdom who could decide the fate of battles before they even began. Okuninushi, the Japanese hero who defeated eighty brothers to become king and then traded it all for a chance at immortality. Featuring more than 70 characters from 23 cultures around the world, this A-to-Z encyclopedia of mythology is a who's who of powerful gods and goddesses, warriors and kings, enchanted creatures and earthshaking giants whose stories have been passed down since the beginning of time—and are now given fresh life for a new generation of young readers. Plus, You'll Learn All About: Dragons: The Hydra, St. George's Dragon, and the Australian Rainbow Snake Giants: Grendel, Balor of the Evuil Eye, Polyphemus, and the Purusha with the thousand heads Monsters: Manticore, Sphinx, Minotaur, Thunderbird, and Echidne, mother of the Nemean lion that nearly killed Heracles Underworlds: Travel to Hades, Valhalla, and the Elysian Fields

Greek Gods and Heroes

Author : Robert Graves
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795336519
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Greek Gods and Heroes written by Robert Graves and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible anthology of the greatest ancient Greek myths and legends for readers of all ages by the celebrated classicist and historical novelist. According to the myths, gods and goddesses of ancient Greece lived on Mount Olympus and ruled the world of mortals. Famous heroes shaped the course of history, beautiful women drew the gazes of gods and men alike, and the gods were both fickle in their favors and breathtakingly generous to those they smiled upon. From Midas’s tragic gift to the exploits of Hercules and the curse of Pandora, Robert Graves brings the legends of ancient Greece to life in a way that’s sure to appeal to everyone; from children to adults, and from casual readers to serious scholars. “Directly told, with no attempt to oversimplify them, a good deal of the symbolism and the association with the pattern of ancient Greece survives.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review).

Gods and Heroes in Art

Author : Lucia Impelluso
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892367023
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Gods and Heroes in Art written by Lucia Impelluso and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classical guide to the role both Greek and Roman mythology played in European art during the Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassical ages. Includes more than four hundred illustrations.

The Greek Myths

Author : Robin Waterfield
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1623652146
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book The Greek Myths written by Robin Waterfield and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly readable and beautifully illustrated re-telling of the most famous stories from Greek mythology. The Greek Myths contains some of the most thrilling, romantic, and unforgettable stories in all human history. From Achilles rampant on the fields of Troy, to the gods at sport on Mount Olympus; from Icarus flying too close to the sun, to the superhuman feats of Heracles, Theseus, and the wily Odysseus, these timeless tales exert an eternal fascination and inspiration that have endured for millennia and influenced cultures from ancient to modern. Beginning at the dawn of human civilization, when the Titan Prometheus stole fire from Zeus and offered mankind hope, the reader is immediately immersed in the majestic, magical, and mythical world of the Greek gods and heroes. As the tales unfold, renowned classicist Robin Waterfield, joined by his wife, writer Kathryn Waterfield, creates a sweeping panorama of the romance, intrigues, heroism, humour, sensuality, and brutality of the Greek myths and legends. The terrible curse that plagued the royal houses of Mycenae and Thebes, Jason and the golden fleece, Perseus and the dread Gorgon, the wooden horse and the sack of Troy--these amazing stories have influenced art and literature from the Iron Age to the present day. And far from being just a treasure trove of amazing tales, The Greek Myths is a catalogue of Greek myth in art through the ages, and a notable work of literature in its own right.

Gods and Heroes

Author : Michael Foss
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1782432531
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Gods and Heroes written by Michael Foss and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The travelling storyteller combined many talents: scholar, educator, linguist, poet and musician. He showed learning, curiosity and judgement, but most of all he could not resist a good story. True to their original telling and stripped of the sanitization of later centuries, these powerful tales make compelling reading. The traveller's tales are shaped by the landscape, character, tradition and weather of the stops along his journey: standing below the snow-streaked, cloud-capped massif of Olympus, he feels the awe and majesty of the gods. In the wilderness of Thessaly, menaced by bears and wolves, he recognises the cruel, barbarian anger of Achilles and the ferocious extravagance of Hercules. In soft Eleusis, strong wine at the day's end brings him to the Mysteries of Dionysus and the Bacchic frenzy. The Mycenaean ruins impress on him the workings of the hand of fate: the frailty of empire, the waste of the ten year's Trojan war, the horror of Agamemnon's domestic grief. Under the illumination of the startling Greek light the storyteller interprets for his listeners the sense they have of themselves. His stories of myth and legend are the oldest speculations of the first deep-thinking people of Europe. They are also the first and longest-lasting entertainments of the European imagination.

Gods and Heroes

Author : R.E Francillon
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752340223
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Gods and Heroes written by R.E Francillon and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-25 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Gods and Heroes by R.E Francillon

Classical Gods Heroe

Author : Rhoda Hendricks
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0688052797
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Classical Gods Heroe written by Rhoda Hendricks and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1974-08-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the wonder, terror and delight of Greek mythology springs forth from the pages of this unique and much-needed anthology. Rhonda Hendricks has not only selected from the works of the ancient authors the best -- and often earliest -- versions of these tales; she has also arranged them so as to give a cumulative view of classical mythology beginning with The Creation and The Birth of Zeus. Of particular interest are: The Ages of Mankind, The Birth of Athena, Oedipus the King, Heracles, Theseus, Jason and Medea, The Judgement of Paris, The Trojan Horse, Pygmalion, and Cupid and Psyche. These texts offer a new perspective on classical mythology and, by so doing, cast a new light on this cornerstone of Western culture.

Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths

Author : Bernard Evslin
Publisher : Graymalkin + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1631683217
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths written by Bernard Evslin and published by Graymalkin + ORM. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling compendium of ancient Greece’s timeless tales and towering figures of mythology from a classics expert. The world of Greek mythology contains some of the most exciting and imaginative stories ever told. In Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths, bestselling author Bernard Evslin shares his passion for these fabulous tales and the eternal themes they so beautifully express. In this accessible overview, you’ll get to know the iconic gods, heroes, and tragic figures: Zeus, the all-powerful king of the gods; Hera, his cunning and jealous wife; King Midas, whose touch could turn anything into gold; the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his own creation; and many more. With each story, Evslin brings new life to these legendary characters and the magical world they inhabit. Translated into multiple languages, and with more than ten million copies sold, this invaluable resource has become a classic in itself.

Greek Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook

Author : Liv Albert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1507215495
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Greek Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook by : Liv Albert

Download or read book Greek Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook written by Liv Albert and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographic references and index.

Gods, Heroes, & Kings

Author : Christopher R. Fee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198038788
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Gods, Heroes, & Kings written by Christopher R. Fee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer's belief system met with the existing systems of gods, legends, and myths. In Gods, Heroes, and Kings, medievalist Christopher Fee and veteran myth scholar David Leeming unearth the layers of the British Isles' unique folkloric tradition to discover how this body of seemingly disparate tales developed. The authors find a virtual battlefield of myths in which pagan and Judeo-Christian beliefs fought for dominance, and classical, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Celtic narrative threads became tangled together. The resulting body of legends became a strange but coherent hybrid, so that by the time Chaucer wrote "The Wife of Bath's Tale" in the fourteenth century, a Christian theme of redemption fought for prominence with a tripartite Celtic goddess and the Arthurian legends of Sir Gawain-itself a hybrid mythology. Without a guide, the corpus of British mythology can seem impenetrable. Taking advantage of the latest research, Fee and Leeming employ a unique comparative approach to map the origins and development of one of the richest folkloric traditions. Copiously illustrated with excerpts in translation from the original sources,Gods, Heroes, and Kings provides a fascinating and accessible new perspective on the history of British mythology.

Greek Mythology

Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 152677657X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Greek Mythology written by Robert Garland and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek mythology isn’t the equivalent of the Bible or the Qur’an. There is no standardized version of any myth. Myths aren’t sacred. Whether you happen to be Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides or any other Greek, or even you or me, every myth is yours to tell and interpret any way you like. Just to give one example. An oracle has decreed that Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother. In Homer’s version, Oedipus carries on ruling in Thebes when he discovers he has fulfilled the oracle, whereas in the version that Sophocles gives us in his play Oedipus the King, Oedipus blinds himself and goes into voluntary exile. That said, certain details are unalterable. Oedipus has to be ignorant of the fact that the man whom he kills is his father and that the woman whom he marries is his mother, he has to fulfill the awful prophecy of the oracle, and he has to come to a realization of what he has done afterwards. But everything else is pretty much up for grabs. Greek mythology is very much alive and well in the contemporary world. There are many narrative versions of the myths currently available, but this book will do something very different: it will give the characters the chance to tell their stories in their own words. In so doing, it will give both gods and humans the opportunity to reflect upon their life stories and, in places, justify their actions. In this way they will come across as real people, just as they are, say, in the plays of the dramatists.

Gods, Heroes, and Monsters

Author : Carolina López-Ruiz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190644819
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book Gods, Heroes, and Monsters written by Carolina López-Ruiz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Features more mythological sagas from Apollodorus' Library and additional excerpts from his other work, including the stories of Deucalion, Dionysus, Bellerophon, Kadmos, and Tiresias" -- Publisher's website

Greek Gods, Heroes, and Mythology

Author : A.W. Buckey
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1532170688
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Greek Gods, Heroes, and Mythology written by A.W. Buckey and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sky-god Zeus, the hero Heracles, and the fearsome Minotaur are well-known subjects of Greek mythology. Greek Gods, Heroes, and Mythology explores the gods, heroes, creatures, and stories of Greek mythology, in addition to examining their influence today. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Japanese Gods, Heroes, and Mythology

Author : Tammy Gagne
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 153217070X
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Gods, Heroes, and Mythology written by Tammy Gagne and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hero Momotaro, the sun goddess Amaterasu, and the Buddha are important subjects of Japanese mythology. Japanese Gods, Heroes, and Mythology explores the gods, heroes, creatures, and stories of Japanese mythology, in addition to examining their influence today. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

The Macmillan Book of Greek Gods and Heroes

Author : Alice Low
Publisher : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
ISBN 13 : 9780689718748
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book The Macmillan Book of Greek Gods and Heroes written by Alice Low and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreates the popular myths of ancient Greece, including the legend of Odysseus.

Encyclopedia Mythologica: Gods and Heroes Pop-Up

Author : Matthew Reinhart
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0763650854
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia Mythologica: Gods and Heroes Pop-Up written by Matthew Reinhart and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-01-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creators of the New York Times best-selling Encyclopedia Prehistorica series offer a mythic look at the mysteries of the past with an entire pantheon of remarkable pop-ups. For all of recorded history, humans have sought to understand Earth’s mysteries in the realm of the divine — and aspired to conduct themselves as heroes. Only gods, of course, could push the sun across the sky,forge entire continents, and impel mountains to touch the clouds. In this stunning volume, the incomparable team of Matthew Reinhart and Robert Sabuda take us to Ra-Atum’s land in Ancient Egypt; above the Grecian clouds to Zeus’s Mount Olympus; up to Norse god Odin’s frozen north; to the Far East, where the Jade Emperor sits in the heavens; into the wilds of Oceania, where Pele’s volcanic rage simmers below the earth; and to many more lands and times, all rich with sacred myths and legends.

Gods, Heroes and Monsters

Author : Stella Caldwell
Publisher : Not Found
ISBN 13 : 9781783121199
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Gods, Heroes and Monsters written by Stella Caldwell and published by Not Found. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mythworld is a lavish album of discovery in which the legendary creatures, battles and heroic deeds of Greek mythology are brought to jaw-dropping life. Stunning photographs of ancient treasures are paired with full-bleed awe-inspiring CGI scenes from the classic myths - your chance to rediscover gripping tales of the Odyssey, the Trojan Wars and the adventures of heroes such as Perseus and Heracles. Lively text explains the historical context of the myths and an illustrated map showcases the awesome Greek mythical world. From fates and furies to minotaurs and muses, this is a book to stir your imagination.