Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter
10 best books like Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter (Karl Kerényi): Underworld, The Georgian Rake, Awaken, The Golden Ass, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Arthurian Romances, The Immortals, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore, Religions of Rome, Volume 1: A History, Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations
| Author | Meg Cabot |
| ISBN | 0545415071 |
Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back.
Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera isn’t dead.
Not this time.
But she is being held against her will in the dim, twilit world between heaven and hell, where the spirits of the deceased wait...
| Author | Alice Chetwynd Ley |
| ISBN | 0552104825 |
Amanda Twyford had to face the unwelcome news that Charles Barsett would wed her sister Isabella. Charles' reputation as a rogue made such a marriage unthinkable to Amanda - but not to Isabella, a dutiful daughter whose head was turned by Charles' title and wealth. It was left to Amanda to prove that Charles...
| Author | Meg Cabot |
| ISBN | 0545284120 |
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot, the dark reimagining of the Persephone myth comes to a thrilling conclusion.
Death has her in his clutches. She doesn't want him to let her go. Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera knew by accepting the love of John Hayden, she'd be forced...
| Author | Apuleius |
| ISBN | 0253200369 |
The Golden Ass by Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in entirety from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass....
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
| Author | Joseph Campbell |
| ISBN | 0691017840 |
The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis with the archetypes of world mythology, the book creates a roadmap for navigating the frustrating path of contemporary life. Examining heroic myths in the light of modern psychology, it considers...
| Author | Chrétien de Troyes |
| ISBN | 0140445218 |
Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chrétien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of the Cart is the first telling of the adulterous relationship between Lancelot and Arthur's Queen...
| Author | Jordanna Max Brodsky |
| ISBN | 0316347183 |
MANHATTAN HAS MANY SECRETS.
SOME ARE OLDER THAN THE CITY ITSELF.
Manhattan.
The city sleeps. Selene DiSilva walks her dog along the banks of the Hudson. She is alone-just the way she likes it. She doesn't believe in friends, and she doesn't speak to her family. Most of them are simply...
| Author | W.B. Yeats |
| ISBN | 0486436578 |
Best known for his poetry, William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was also a dedicated exponent of Irish folklore. Yeats took a particular interest in the tales' mythic and magical roots. The Celtic Twilight ventures into the eerie and puckish world of fairies, ghosts, and spirits. "This handful of dreams,"...
| Author | Mary Beard |
| ISBN | 0521316820 |
This book offers a radical survey of over a 1000 years of religious life, from the foundation of Rome to its rise to world empire & Xian conversion. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the 8th century BCE & the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of...
| Author | Alexander Carmichael |
| ISBN | 0863155200 |
Carmina Gadelica is the most complete anthology of Celtic oral tradition ever assembled. During his travels, Alexander Carmichael spent hours with peasants in their huts in front of peat fires listening as they "intoned in a low, recitative manner" these poems and prayers. This unique collection...
The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology
| Author | Paul Radin |
| ISBN | 0805203516 |
The myth of the Trickster--ambiguous creator and destroyer, cheater and cheated, subhuman and superhuman--is one of the earliest and most universal expressions of mankind. Nowhere does it survive in more starkly archaic form than in the voraciously uninhibited episodes of the Winnebago Trickster...
Eleusinian Mysteries Rites
| Author | Dudley Wright |
| ISBN | 0892540702 |
Parts of this book deserved an easy 4 or even a 5. But it got dragged down by the rather shocking amount of wacky ideas presented as scholarly fact. In the preface, on the very first page, it's posited that, rather than Freemasonry rites being based on Eleusis, it could well be the other way around.
Really?...
| Author | Claudius Claudianus |
| ISBN | 0198147775 |
Claudian was one of the last great Latin poets of the classical tradition, writing in the fourth century A.D. This simplified text of his poem, De Raptu Prosperpinae, has a facing-page translation to make the work more accessible to non-specialists. This book sets Claudian in his rightful place as...
Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome
| Author | Anthony Corbeill |
| ISBN | 0691163227 |
From the moment a child in ancient Rome began to speak Latin, the surrounding world became populated with objects possessing grammatical gender--masculine eyes (oculi), feminine trees (arbores), neuter bodies (corpora). Sexing the World surveys the many ways in which grammatical gender enabled...
| Author | Barbette Stanley Spaeth |
| ISBN | 0292776934 |
Interest in goddess worship is growing in contemporary society, as women seek models for feminine spirituality and wholeness. New cults are developing around ancient goddesses from many cultures, although their modern adherents often envision and interpret the goddesses very differently than...
Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, and Matrons: Women in Roman Religion
Roman women were the procreators and nurturers of life, both in the domestic world of the family and in the larger sphere of the state. Although deterred from participating in most aspects of public life, women played an essential role in public religious ceremonies, taking part in rituals designed...
Dictionary of Roman Religion
| Author | Lesley Adkins |
| ISBN | 0195142330 |
Long overshadowed by Greek mythology or treated peripherally in general texts on the ancient Roman world, Roman religion is finally accorded its due and set in its full context as no other reference source has done before. While perhaps most familiar in the context of Greek-influenced gods, Roman...
An Introduction to Roman Religion
| Author | John Scheid |
| ISBN | 0253216605 |
Written by one of the world's leading scholars of the Roman world, An Introduction to Roman Religion offers students a complete portrait of religion in Rome during the late republic and early empire. It draws on the latest findings in archaeology and history to explain the meanings of rituals, rites,...
Roman Mythology: A Traveler's Guide from Troy to Tivoli
| Author | David Stuttard |
| ISBN | 0500252297 |
All roads lead to Rome, as the famous saying goes. Rome was a melting pot of peoples from across the Mediterranean and beyond, each bringing their own myths and legends of heroes and heroines, gods and goddesses. Roman myths formed the backdrop to the rituals and customs of everyday life, from the way...
| Author | T. Wiseman |
| ISBN | 0977409457 |
"There was once a dream that was Rome." So says the old emperor Marcus Aurelius in Ridley Scott's epic Gladiator . It was a Rome of free citizens, brave, incorruptible, loved by the gods. It had its own myths, the stories that defined what the Romans were, and in due course it achieved mythic status itself....
The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy
| Author | James M. Redfield |
| ISBN | 0691116059 |
Athens dominates textbook accounts of ancient Greece. But was it, for the Greeks themselves, a model city-state or a creative, even a corrupt, departure from the model? Or was there a model? This book reveals Epizephyrian Locri--a Greek colony on the Adriatic coast of Italy--as a third way in Greek...
| Author | T.P. Wiseman |
| ISBN | 0859898237 |
In Unwritten Rome, a new book by the author of Myths of Rome, T.P. Wiseman presents us with an imaginative and appealing picture of the early society of pre-literary Rome-as a free and uninhibited world in which the arts and popular entertainments flourished. This original angle allows the voice of...
The Romans and Their Gods in the Age of Augustus
| Author | Robert Maxwell Ogilvie |
| ISBN | 0393005437 |
Basing his work on much original material (all of which is quoted in translation), R. M. Ogilvie gives a picture of religious life in Rome during the period between 80 B. C., and A. D. 69. He discusses the various Roman gods and their spheres of activity, the manner and kinds of prayer, forms of sacrifice,...
Paganism in the Roman Empire
| Author | Ramsay MacMullen |
| ISBN | 0300029845 |
“MacMullen…has published several books in recent years which establish him, rightfully, as a leading social historian of the Roman Empire. The current volume exhibits many of the characteristics of its predecessors: the presentation of novel, revisionist points of view; discrete set pieces...
Religio Romana Handbook (Modern Roman Living Series 1)
| Author | L. Vitellius Triarius |
RE-RELEASE: 2ND EDITION
The Religio Romana Handbook: A Guide for the Modern Practitioner, 2nd Edition, is the first volume in the series, “The Modern Roman Living Series,” by Lucius Vitellius Triarius. It is a guide for the practitioner of the cultus deorum Romanum, the ancient Roman...
| Author | Valerie M. Warrior |
| ISBN | 0521532124 |
This book provides an introduction to the religion and religious practices of ancient Rome. Examining sites that are familiar to many modern tourists, Valerie Warrior avoids imposing a modern perspective on the topic by using the testimony of the ancient Romans to describe traditional Roman religion....
History of Rome, Volume 5 of 14: Books 21-22
Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BCE; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in 12 or 17 CE.
Livy's only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BCE. Of its 142 books, we have just 35,...
| Author | E.M. Forster |
| ISBN | 0141441488 |
E. M. Forster once described The Longest Journey as the book "I am most glad to have written." An introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic, it tells of a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent. He sets out full of hope to become...
| Author | Thomas P. Carpenter |
| ISBN | 0801480620 |
.
Evelyn Spencer has spent the last ten years living in her uncle’s house and longing for the day when she can leave and make her own way in the world.
When she finds out her uncle’s terrible, hidden secret, Evelyn decides that she will first get revenge then leave and never set eyes on her wicked uncle...
