Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
10 best books like Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Anonymous): Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer, The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Gods and Myths of Northern Europe, The Library of Greek Mythology, American Indian Myths and Legends, New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, Myths & Legends of the British Isles, National Geographic Essential Visual History of World Mythology, Parallel Myths, The Babylonian Genesis
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer
| Author | Diane Wolkstein |
| ISBN | 0060908548 |
A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period.
With the long-awaited publication of this book, we have for the first time in any modern literary form one of the most vital and important of ancient myths: that...
| Author | Robert Graves |
| ISBN | 0374504938 |
The White Goddess is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and religious scholarship, Graves explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities—the White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Death—who...
| Author | Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson |
| ISBN | 0140136274 |
Tiw, Woden, Thunor, Frig. these ancient northern deities gave their names to the very days of our week. Nevertheless, most of us know far more of Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and the classical deities. Recent researches in archaeology and mythology have added to what was already a fairly consistent...
| Author | Apollodorus |
| ISBN | 0192839241 |
The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War. Apollodorus' Library has been used as a source book by classicists from the time of its compilation in the 1st-2nd century...
This magnificent collection gathers 160 tales from 80 tribal gathers to offer a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage. From all across the continent come tales of creation and love, of heroes and war, of animals, tricksters, and the end of the world. Alfonso Ortiz, an eminent...
| Author | Félix Guirand |
| ISBN | 0517004046 |
Here, in all their wonder and splendor, are the Mythologies of Mankind.. from pre-biblical Egypt and pre-Homeric Greece to the farthest researches of Africa, the Orient, the Pacific and the Americas.. all gathered into one mammoth volume of unprecedented scope and beauty, and illustrated with an...
| Author | Richard Barber |
| ISBN | 1843830396 |
The British Isles have a long tradition of tales of gods, heroes and marvels, hinting at a mythology once as relevant to the races which settled the islands as the Greek and Roman gods were to the classical world. The tales drawn together in this book, from a wide range of medieval sources, span the centuries...
National Geographic Essential Visual History of World Mythology
| Author | National Geographic Society |
From ancient Egyptian deities to the Vedic gods of India, from Maya, Inca, and Aztec legends to the Dreamtime of the Aborigines. National Geographic Essential Visual History of World Mythology encompasses myths and creation stories from around the globe that have shaped society for millennia. Accessible,...
| Author | J.F. Bierlein |
| ISBN | 0345381467 |
"Unusually accessible and useful . . . An eye-opener to readers into the universality and importance of myth in human history and culture."--William E. Paden, Chair, Department of Religion, University of Vermont
For as long as human beings have had language, they have had myths. Mythology...
| Author | Alexander Heidel |
| ISBN | 0226323994 |
Here is a complete translation of all the published cuneiform tablets of the various Babylonian creation stories, of both the Semitic Babylonian & the Sumerian material. Each creation account is preceded by a brief introduction dealing with the age & provenance of the tablets, the aim &...
| Author | Raphael Patai |
| ISBN | 0814322719 |
Having read the Myths of Genesis book coauthored with Robert Graves, I was atuned to Patais' name and approach. Finding a copy of his Hebrew Goddess therefore led to its purchase at a local bookstore.
Contrary to some reviewers, the Hebrew bible is replete with contradictions. It's just that...
Ancient Near East, Volume 1: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures
| Author | James B. Pritchard |
| ISBN | 0691002002 |
"The Ancient Near East, Volume 1: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures" (1958) is an abridged edition of the now-classic collection "Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament" (1950, corrected 1955: commonly ANET) and its companion volume of "The Ancient Near East in Pictures Relating...
The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
| Author | Joseph Campbell |
| ISBN | 0140194436 |
I wish I could like Campbell's Masks of God series more than I do. I keep having the same experience -- I pick one up and read 15 pages that are magnificent, electrifying, and truly brilliant in their scope and perspicacity.
Then the long digressions accumulate and I start to lose the line of his...
| 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...
Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary
| Author | Jeremy Black |
| ISBN | 0292707940 |
Ancient Mesopotamia was a rich, varied and highly complex culture whose achievements included the invention of writing and the development of sophisticated urban society. This book offers an introductory guide to the beliefs and customs of the ancient Mesopotamians, as revealed in their art and...
Stories from Ancient Canaan
| Author | Mark S. Smith |
| ISBN | 0664241840 |
Contained on fifteen of the cuneiform tables uncovered at the ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit are the four major oral Ugartic myths of Aqhat, The Healers, Kirta and Baal. Stories from Ancient Canaan is the first to offer a one-volume translation of all four. This accessible book teaches the principal...
| Author | Samuel Noah Kramer |
| ISBN | 0812210476 |
Sumerian Mythology Revised Edition Samuel Noah Kramer "A real addition to the body of world mythology."--American Anthropologist "No people has contributed more to the culture of mankind than the Sumerians, and yet it has been only in recent years that our knowledge of them has become at all accurate...
The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion
| Author | Thorkild Jacobsen |
| ISBN | 0300022913 |
“The Treasures of Darkness is the culmination of a lifetime’s work, an attempt to summarize and recreate the spiritual life of Ancient Mesopotamia. Jacobsen has succeeded brilliantly. . . . His vast experience shows through every page of this unique book, through the vivid, new translations...
Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City
| Author | Gwendolyn Leick |
| ISBN | 0140265740 |
Over 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, urban living began...
Mesopotamia, situated roughly where Iraq is today, was one of the greatest ancient civilizations. It was here that the very first cities were created, and where the familiar sights of modern urban life - public buildings and gardens,...
Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs
| Author | James P. Allen |
| ISBN | 0521774837 |
This is an introduction to the writing system of ancient Egypt and the language of hieroglyphic texts. It contains twenty-six lessons, exercises (with answers), a list of hieroglyphic signs, and a dictionary, as well as twenty-five essays on the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian history,...
History of the Ancient Near East
| Author | Marc Van De Mieroop |
| ISBN | 1405149116 |
If the history of the Near East has always seemed a little daunting and confusing, this book by one of the best known writers on the subject should show you the light at the end of the tunnel. Beginning c.3000 BC with the advent of the first writing system, Van De Mieroop traces the emergence and development...
