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10 best books like Myths of the Greeks and Romans (Michael Grant): The Arthurian Legends, Magical Beasts, Fairies and Elves, A Field Guide to the Little People, Dwarfs, New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, The Greek Myths: 2, Myths of Greece and Rome, National Geographic Essential Visual History of World Mythology, The Nature of Greek Myths

The Arthurian Legends
AuthorRichard Barber
ISBN0851151108
This book I got many years ago from Quarwood of all places. It's one of the books I own from John Entwistle's personal library, and it is an exceptionally beautiful book. It is worth five stars for the pictures alone, but the accompanying text makes it all even better.

The book is a broad survey...
Magical Beasts
AuthorEllen Galford
ISBN0809452294
To learn more about the Enchanted World Series and see this full review, please visit www.readrantrockandroll.com

Magical Beasts is the second book in the Enchanted World Series that I've read recently. The book is split into three sections/chapters and covers many different beasts and...
Fairies and Elves
AuthorTristram Potter Coffin
I picked this up by chance in a local market and I'm deeply thrilled that I did.

large range of Fairy legends essentially condensed into a flow of text. Seems to draw mainly from pre-existing collections.

In terms of layout and art - a really fantastic book. Pulls from the history of 19th...
A Field Guide to the Little People
AuthorNancy Arrowsmith
ISBN0671790366
In high summer meadows, nestled in the moors, near old castles, or behind the kitchen stove--these are the places where the Little People may be found. Make the acquaintance of White Ladies and Red Caps, Church Grims and Hobgoblins, English Fairies, Leprechauns, Sirens, Hey-Hey Men, and all of their...
Dwarfs
AuthorTim Appenzeller
ISBN0809452243
This book is similar in appearance, style, and presentation to other volumes in the Time-Life Enchanted World series, but contains content focusing on yet another creature of myth and fantasy: the dwarf. As with other Enchanted World volumes, "Dwarfs" contains numerous color illustrations that...
New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology
AuthorFélix Guirand
ISBN0517004046
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...
The Greek Myths: 2
AuthorRobert Graves
ISBN0140010270
Robert Graves, classicist, poet, and unorthodox critic, retells the Greek legends of gods and heroes for a modern audience 

And, in the two volumes of The Greek Myths, he demonstrates with a dazzling display of relevant knowledge that Greek Mythology is “no more mysterious in content...
Myths of Greece and Rome
AuthorThomas Bulfinch
ISBN0140056432
Orpheus leading his beloved Eurydice back to life … Ulysses battling to resist the mesmerising Sirens’ song … The tragedy of the vengeful Medea …

The timeless stories of the gods and goddesses of Greece and Rome are charged with passion and romance, magic and murder. Each one is brought...
National Geographic Essential Visual History of World Mythology
AuthorNational 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,...
The Nature of Greek Myths
AuthorGeoffrey S. Kirk
ISBN0140135367
Professor Kirk has examined these universal theories in detail. They are all, he admits, illuminating, but none is adequate by itself, because these ' traditional tales ' are of such variety that no single theory that can embrace them all. His general analysis of the nature of myth is followed by a splendid...
The Kabbalah Unveiled
AuthorS.L. MacGregor Mathers
ISBN0877285578
While highly mired in the theosophy and freemasonry that Mathers was steeped in by his mentors (Westcott and Woodmen and others), as one of the first English translations of source literature, Mathers' translation was once a must read.

Today, if you want to understand Kabbalah, read Gershom...
The Collected Works of C.G. Jung
AuthorC.G. Jung
ISBN0691074763
The Collected Works of C.G. Jung is the 1st collected edition, in English translation, of the writings of the Swiss psychiatrist:
1/Psychiatric Studies. Adler & Hull, ed./tr.
2/Experimental Researches. Adler & Stein, ed./tr.
3/Psychogenesis of Mental Disease. Adler, Read,...
The Essene Gospel of Peace, Book 1
AuthorEdmond Bordeaux Szekely
ISBN0895640007
A most interesting and delightful little book is entitled The Essene Gospel Of Peace - Book 1. It was discovered in the Vatican library and appears to be a genuine manuscript written at the time of Christ or shortly thereafter. It was translated into English by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely.

The theme...
The Druids
AuthorStuart Piggott
ISBN0500273634
3 из 5, потому что зубодробительное написание текста стало и в каком-то роде и открытием, и головной болью. Если хотите поистязать мозг-милости просим,...
The Myths of Greece and Rome
AuthorHélène A. Guerber
ISBN0486275841
Having only a basic familiarity with some of the most well-known Greek and Roman myths, I felt that I needed to read this. Guerber presents an overview that surely must cover all the gods and goddesses and mythical mortals whose names survive in our constellations and in our language. I started out taking...
No Man's Lands: One Man's Odyssey Through The Odyssey
AuthorScott Huler
When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce’s Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book’s inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero, Odysseus.No-Man’s Lands is Huler’s...
Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age
AuthorPeter Green
ISBN0520083490
The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics. Yet few...
Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece
AuthorRobin Waterfield
"Is there anyone on earth who is so narrow-minded or uninquisitive that he could fail to want to know how and thanks to what kind of political system almost the entire known world was conquered and brought under a single empire in less than fifty-three years?" --Polybius, Histories
The 53-year period...
A Witch's Guide To Faery Folk: How to Work With the Elemental World
AuthorEdain McCoy
ISBN0875427332
Work magick with help from the little people

All over the world, people have reported encounters with a race of tiny people who are neither human nor deity. This book reclaims that lost, rich heritage of working with faery folk that our Pagan ancestors took for granted.

Edain McCoy...
The Complete Golden Dawn System Of Magic (Ltd Edition)
AuthorIsrael Regardie
ISBN1561841714
The Special Red Edition with Hebrew Letters

by Israel Regardie

Foreword by David Cherubim

Master Index by Jim Strain

This is the master compilation of the magical teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn of which Israel Regardie was an initiated Adept....
The Book of Beginnings
AuthorTime-Life Books
ISBN0809452650
My review for all of these books in this series is the same.

Time-Life has once again done an outstanding job putting together a series. From cover to cover they are thoughtful, beautiful books. I'm starting to sound generic, but it's true.
I'm a DK fan, I like white backgrounds and side notes...
Black Athena: Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985
AuthorMartin Bernal
ISBN0813512778
Could Greek philosophy be rooted in Egyptian thought? Is it possible that the Pythagorean theory was conceived on the shores of the Nile and the Euphrates rather than in ancient Greece? Could it be that Western civilization was born on the so-called Dark Continent? For almost two centuries, Western...
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