The Library of Greek Mythology
10 best books like The Library of Greek Mythology (Apollodorus): Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer, Metamorphoses, Theogony / Works and Days, The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, The Complete World of Greek Mythology, Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt, The Saga of the Volsungs, The Complete Illuminated Books, Heroides, Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
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...
Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first attempt to link all the Greek myths, before and after Homer, in a cohesive whole, to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation,...
Theogony / Works and Days
| Author | Hesiod |
| ISBN | 0192839411 |
Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in European literature. The Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the beginning of the world and an account of their violent struggles before the present order was established. The Works and Days, a...
| 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 | Richard Buxton |
| ISBN | 0500251215 |
Greek myths are among the most complex and influential stories ever told. From the first millennium BC until today, the myths have been repeated in an inexhaustible series of variations and reinterpretations. They can be found in the latest movies and television shows and in software for interactive...
Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt
| Author | Geraldine Pinch |
| ISBN | 0195170245 |
From stories of resurrected mummies and thousand-year-old curses to powerful pharaohs and the coveted treasures of the Great Pyramids, ancient Egypt has had an unfaltering grip on the modern imagination. Now, in Egyptian Mythology, Geraldine Pinch offers a comprehensive introduction that untangles...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0140447385 |
Based on Viking Age poems, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology, legend and sheer human drama. At its heart are the heroic deeds of Sigurd the dragon slayer who acquires magical knowledge from one of Odin's Valkyries. Yet it is also set in a very human world, incorporating strands from the oral...
The Complete Illuminated Books
| Author | William Blake |
| ISBN | 0500282455 |
In his Illuminated Books, William Blake combined text and imagery on a single page in a way that had not been done since the Middle Ages. For Blake, religion and politics, intellect and emotion, mind and body were both unified and in conflict with each other: his work is expressive of his personal mythology,...
In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or anger at betrayal. The faithful Penelope...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0192835890 |
The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include parallels with the biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood, and the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the...
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...
