Dionysus: Myth and Cult
8 best books like Dionysus: Myth and Cult (Walter F. Otto): Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America, The Bacchae, The Greeks and the Irrational, Greek Religion, Ancient Mystery Cults (Revised), Antigonick, Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America
| Author | Jeff Ryan |
| ISBN | 1591844053 |
The story of Nintendo's rise and the beloved icon who made it possible.
Nintendo has continually set the standard for video-game innovation in America, starting in 1981 with a plucky hero who jumped over barrels to save a girl from an ape.
The saga of Mario, the portly plumber who became...
| Author | Euripides |
| ISBN | 1854594117 |
Dionysus is my favourite ancient Greek god. Why? Because he is the coolest, simple as.
“He is life's liberating force.
He is release of limbs and communion through dance.
He is laughter, and music in flutes.
He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep!"
- The Young...
| Author | E.R. Dodds |
| ISBN | 0520003276 |
In this philosophy classic, first published in 1951, E.R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology & psychology, he asks, "Why should we attribute to the ancient Greeks an immunity from 'primitive' modes...
| Author | Walter Burkert |
| ISBN | 0674362810 |
In this book Walter Burkert, the most eminent living historian of ancient Greek religion, has produced the standard work for our time on that subject. First published in German in 1977, it has now been translated into English with the assistance of the author himself. A clearly structured and readable...
Ancient Mystery Cults (Revised)
| Author | Walter Burkert |
| ISBN | 0674033876 |
The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices. Secret mystery cults flourished within the larger culture of the public religion of Greece and Rome for roughly a thousand years. This...
| Author | Anne Carson |
| ISBN | 0811219577 |
Antigonick is a translation of Sophokle's Antigone only in the loosest sense – with significant changes and metatextual additions to the original, an extra character, and illustrations with interpretations left open to the reader, it could easily be considered a different work altogether.
With...
Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life
| Author | Karl Kerényi |
| ISBN | 0691029156 |
No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the sensuous tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. In myth and image, in visionary experience and ritual representation, the Greeks possessed a complete expression of indestructible life, the essence...
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
| Author | Robert L. Moore |
| ISBN | 0062506064 |
The corporate "yes man," the wife-beater, the hot-shot male junior executive and the emotionally distant father are all boys pretending to be men, observe the authors of this liberating guide to self-transformation. Writing within a Jungian framework, they perceive symptoms of "Boycaps per book...
