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10 best books like The Gods of the Greeks (Karl Kerényi): Pumpkinheads, Οι γάμοι του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας, Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece, The Greek Way, The Greeks, The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology: An A-Z Guide to the Myths and Legends of the Ancient World, The World of Odysseus, November Road, The Greeks and the Irrational, The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World

Pumpkinheads
AuthorRainbow Rowell
Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends.

Every autumn, all through high school, they’ve worked together at the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world. (Not many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is in Omaha, Nebraska, but it definitely is.) They say good-bye...
Οι γάμοι του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας
AuthorRoberto Calasso
Στους γάμους του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας ήταν η τελευταία φορά όπου, με την ευκαιρία εκείνης της γιορτής, οι θεοί του Ολύμπου κάθισαν στο ίδιο τραπέζι με...
Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece
AuthorGustav Schwab
From fire-stealing Prometheus to scene-stealing Helen of Troy, from Jason and his golden fleece to Oedipus and his mother, this collection of classic tales from Greek mythology demonstrates the inexhaustible vitality of a timeless cultural legacy.

Here are Icarus flying too close to the...
The Greek Way
AuthorEdith Hamilton
ISBN0393310779
"Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilized world, a strange new power was at work... Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and of spirit that our mind and spirit today are different......
The Greeks
AuthorH.D.F. Kitto
ISBN0140135219
The Greeks, Humphrey Davy Findley ‎Kitto
The Greeks is a 1951 non-fiction book on classical Greece by University of Bristol professor and translator H. D. F. Kitto. The Greeks serves as an introduction to the whole range of life in ancient Greece and established Kitto as one of the foremost Grecian...
The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology: An A-Z Guide to the Myths and Legends of the Ancient World
AuthorArthur Cotterell
ISBN0681617349
The book is oversize and has over 1,000 entries over hundreds of pages. It's bulky, but it's lavishly illustrated which makes the full size worthwhile, if you're into those kinds of things.

I think the Goodreads summary can give as good a feel as anything for this book: "An authoritative A to...
The World of Odysseus
AuthorMoses I. Finley
ISBN1590170172
The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long celebrated as a pathbreaking achievement in the social history...
November Road
AuthorLou Berney
ISBN0062663879
Set against the assassination of JFK, a poignant and evocative crime novel that centers on a desperate cat-and-mouse chase across 1960s America—a story of unexpected connections, daring possibilities, and the hope of second chances from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Long and Faraway...
The Greeks and the Irrational
AuthorE.R. Dodds
ISBN0520003276
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...
The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World
AuthorJohn Boardman
ISBN0192801376
From the epic poems of Homer through the glittering art and architecture of Greece's Golden Age to the influential Roman systems of law and leadership, the classical world established the foundations of our culture as well as many of its most enduring achievements. Now available in a smaller, more...
From Ritual to Romance
AuthorJessie Laidlay Weston
ISBN0486296806
Acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as one of the chief sources for his great poem "The Waste Land," Jessie L. Weston's From Ritual to Romance remains a landmark of anthropological and mythological scholarship. In this book she explores the origins of the Grail legend, arguing that it dates back to a primitive...
Greek Religion
AuthorWalter Burkert
ISBN0674362810
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...
Rites and Symbols of Initiation
AuthorMircea Eliade
ISBN0882143581
Organizing data from cultures the world over, Eliade lays out the basic patterns of initiation: group puberty rites, entrance into secret cults, shamanic instruction, individual visions, and heroic rites of passage. The vast information, assembled so beautifully, transcends usual scholarship....
The Trial of Socrates
AuthorI.F. Stone
ISBN0385260326
My first exposure to I.F. Stone was in high school when I stumbled upon his Hidden History of the Korean War in the library. The contents were quite upsetting as they contradicted most of what I'd thought I'd known about the event. My second exposure to Stone was at Grinnell College when I saw a documentary...
L'uomo del labirinto
AuthorDonato Carrisi
ISBN8830448273
Una ragazza scomparsa e ritrovata.
Un uomo senza più nulla da perdere.
La caccia al mostro è iniziata.
L’ondata di caldo anomala travolge ogni cosa, costringendo tutti a invertire i ritmi di vita: soltanto durante le ore di buio è possibile lavorare, muoversi, sopravvivere. Ed...
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