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The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Author: Joseph Campbell
Published: 2008-07-21
book: 418 pages
ISBN:1577315936
ISBN:9781577315933
Publisher: null
Subject: Social Science

Discusses the universal legend of the hero in world mythology, focusing on the motif of the hero's journey through adventure and transformation.

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Metamorphoses

Author: Publius Ovidius Naso
Published: 1807
book: book
ISBN:1577315936
ISBN:9781577315933
Publisher: null
Subject: Literary Criticism

... fÄcillii- nl»i. l)uH« elt <2t». e iio- me nulle expli^ari. — ()ui fiwc!. I' lzc!!. inil. <üf. O>> 6. nun recen« » üb. super, ls. ...

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The Golden Bough

Author: James George Frazer
Published: 2009
book: 732 pages
ISBN:1605209368
ISBN:9781605209364
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Subject: Religion

This abridged edition, assembled in 1922, condenses this fundamental work to one readable volume that is still a source for modern anthropology, thanks to its ...

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Mythologies

Author: Roland Barthes
Published: 1972-01-01
book: 158 pages
ISBN:0374521506
ISBN:9780374521509
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Subject: Fiction

' Each of the little essays in this book wrenches a definition out of a common but constructed object, making the object speak its hidden, but ever-so-present, ...

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Bulfinch's Mythology the Age of Chivalry

Author: Thomas Bulfinch
Published: 2006-05-17
book: 256 pages
ISBN:1847029612
ISBN:9781847029614
Publisher: null
Subject: Literary Collections

KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION On the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe ...

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The Land of the Silver Apples

Author: Nancy Farmer
Published: 2007-08-21
book: 496 pages
ISBN:1416907351
ISBN:9781416907350
Publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

Rarely does a sequel enlarge so brilliantly the world of the first story. Look for the conclusion in The Islands of the Blessed in 2009.

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In the Beginning

Author: Virginia Hamilton
Published: 1991
book: 176 pages
ISBN:0152387420
ISBN:9780152387426
Publisher: Graphia
Subject: Juvenile Nonfiction

An illustrated collection of twenty-five myths from various parts of the world explaining the creation of the world.

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Pagan & Christian creeds

Author: Edward Carpenter
Published: 1921
book: 319 pages
ISBN:0152387420
ISBN:9780152387426
Publisher: null
Subject: Religion

II SOLAR MYTHS AND CHRISTIAN FESTIVALS To the ordinary public — notwithstanding the immense amount of work which has of late been done on this subject — the ...

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Don't Know Much About Mythology

Author: Kenneth C. Davis
Published: 2006-08-03
book: 560 pages
ISBN:0060932570
ISBN:9780060932572
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Subject: Fiction

A new installment of the best-selling series takes readers from Mount Olympus and the Maya of Central America to ancient Rome and the land of the Norse, sharing ...

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The age of fable

Author: Thomas Bulfinch
Published: 1903
book: 568 pages
ISBN:0060932570
ISBN:9780060932572
Publisher: null
Subject: Social Science

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. THE literature of our time, as of all the centuries ol Christendom, is full of allusions to the gods and goddesses of the Greeks ...

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World mythology

Author: Roy G. Willis
Published: 1993-10
book: 311 pages
ISBN:0805027017
ISBN:9780805027013
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Subject: Religion

Looks at the mythology of Egypt, the Middle East, India, China, Tibet, Japan, Greece, Rome, Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Australia

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The Inner Reaches of Outer Space

Author: Joseph Campbell
Published: 2002-02-01
book: 160 pages
ISBN:1577312090
ISBN:9781577312093
Publisher: null
Subject: Social Science

Created from a powerful set of lectures delivered by the "father of modern mythology," this exciting book--the second in the series Collected Works of Joseph ...

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Hamlet's mill

Author: Giorgio De Santillana
Published: 1977
book: 505 pages
ISBN:0879232153
ISBN:9780879232153
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Subject: Philosophy

This is a truly seminal and original thesis, a book that should be read by anyone interested in science, myth, and the interactions between the two.

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Tattoo

Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Published: 2008
book: 272 pages
ISBN:0307498239
ISBN:9780307498236
Publisher: Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers
Subject: Humor

When four fifteen-year-old friends share the temporary tattoos they bought from a mysterious woman at the mall, each develops psychic powers that will help them ...

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A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities

Author: Sir William Smith
Published: 1901
book: book
ISBN:0307498239
ISBN:9780307498236
Publisher: null
Subject: History

... usque ad mortem Neronis gestis auctores retires sccuti videant'ir, Halle, 1840 ; Zell, Ueber die Zeitungen der Alten, Friburg, 183+ ; Le Clerc, ...

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Dictionary of phrase and fable

Author: Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Published: 1898
book: 1440 pages
ISBN:0307498239
ISBN:9780307498236
Publisher: null
Subject: Reference

... OF A. This letter is modified from tho Hebrew H (aleph = an ox}, which was at to indicate the outline of an ox's A among the Egyptians is denoted by the ...

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The Mythology of all races ...

Author: Louis Herbert Gray
Published: 1920
book: book
ISBN:0307498239
ISBN:9780307498236
Publisher: null
Subject: Body, Mind & Spirit

INTRODUCTION THERE is an element of obvious incongruity in the use of the term " Latin American" to designate the native Indian myths of Mexico and of ...

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Trickster Makes This World

Author: Lewis Hyde
Published: 1999-01-01
book: 432 pages
ISBN:0865475369
ISBN:9780865475366
Publisher: North Point Pr
Subject: Fiction

He first revisits the old stories--Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others--and then holds them up ...

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Universal pronouncing dictionary of biography and mythology

Author: Joseph Thomas
Published: 1915
book: 2550 pages
ISBN:0865475369
ISBN:9780865475366
Publisher: null
Subject: Biography & Autobiography

... HERVE HESHAM Hervt5, (Aime Marie Edouard,) a French journalist, born in the island of Reunion in 1835. He engaged in editorial labour, in 1867 founded ...

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Parallel myths

Author: J. F. Bierlein
Published: 2007*
book: 353 pages
ISBN:0345381467
ISBN:9780345381460
Publisher: null
Subject: Fiction

many years ago when my teacher read to us from Thomas Bulfinch's Mythology, and it grew through my high school and university years, and as I became ...

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