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10 best books like The Oxford Classical Dictionary (Simon Hornblower): Eugene Onegin, Principles of Human Knowledge & Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, The Mythic Image, Scipio Africanus: Greater than Napoleon, The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image, The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: Myths and Cult Images, The Gods of the Greeks, Classical Mythology: Images and Insights, South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917, Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison

Eugene Onegin
AuthorAlexander Pushkin
ISBN0192838997
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in imperial Russia during the 1820s, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself...
Principles of Human Knowledge & Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
AuthorGeorge Berkeley
ISBN0140432930
One of the greatest British philosophers, Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) was the founder of the influential doctrine of Immaterialism - the belief that there is no reality outside the mind, and that the existence of material objects depends upon their being perceived. The Principles of Human Knowledge...
The Mythic Image
AuthorJoseph Campbell
ISBN0691018391
A paperback edition of Campbell's major study of the mythology of the world's high civilizations over five millennia. It includes nearly 450 illustrations. The text is the same as that of the 1974 edition.


Mythologist Joseph Campbell was a masterful storyteller, able to weave tales...
Scipio Africanus: Greater than Napoleon
AuthorB.H. Liddell Hart
ISBN0306805839
Scipio Africanus (236–183 B.C.) was one of the most exciting and dynamic leaders in history. As commander he never lost a battle. Yet it is his adversary, Hannibal, who has lived on in the public memory, due mostly to his daring march through the Alps with his elephants. At the Battle of the Ticinus,...
The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image
AuthorAnne Baring
ISBN0140192921
A comprehensive, scholarly accessible study, in which the authors draw upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. They explain what happened to the goddess, when,...
The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: Myths and Cult Images
AuthorMarija Gimbutas
ISBN0520046552
European civilization between 6500 and 3500 BC - long before Greek or Judaeo-Christian civilizations flourished - was not a provincial reflection of neighboring Near Eastern cultures but a distinct culture with its own unique identity. The mythical imagery of this matrilinear era tells us much...
The Gods of the Greeks
AuthorKarl Kerényi
ISBN0500270481
After a brief introduction, the complex genealogies of the gods lead him from the begettings of the Titans and from Aphrodite under all her titles and aspects, to Apollo, Hermes and the reign of Zeus, touching upon the Affairs of Pan, nymphs, satyrs, cosmogonies and the birth of mankind, until he reaches...
Classical Mythology: Images and Insights
AuthorStephen L. Harris
ISBN0073535672
Classical Mythology: Images and Insights grew out of the authors' many years of teaching Greek and Roman myth to undergraduates at California State University, Sacramento. Unique among textbooks on this topic, our book approaches the study of myth through complete works of Greco-Roman literature,...
South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917
AuthorFrank Hurley
THE DEFINITIVE AND SPELLBINDING RECORD OF SHACKLETON'S LEGENDARY ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, IMMORTALIZED ON FILM BY PIONEERING PHOTOGRAPHER FRANK HURLEY Sir Ernest Shackleton's trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914-1917 was one of the great feats of human endurance -- one vividly captured in the powerful...
Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison
AuthorJames Madison
ISBN0393304051
This handsome, affordable paperback edition contains James Madison's entire narrative of the stirring historic debates that led to the creation of one of the free world's most respected documents: the Constitution of the United States. Madison's clear and precise account of the historic summer...
The Oxford History of the Classical World
AuthorJohn Boardman
ISBN0198721129
The history, achievements & legacies of Greek & Roman antiquity come to life in the pages of this comprehensive & beautifully illustrated volume. Following a format similar to that of The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, this brings together the work of 30 authorities & organizes...
Scipio Africanus: Rome's Greatest General
AuthorRichard A. Gabriel
ISBN1597972053
The world often misunderstands its greatest men while neglecting others entirely. Scipio Africanus, surely the greatest general that Rome produced, suffered both these fates. Today scholars celebrate the importance of Hannibal, even though Scipio defeated the legendary general in the Second...
Women in the Classical World: Image and Text
AuthorElaine Fantham
ISBN0195098625
Information about women is scattered throughout the fragmented mosaic of ancient history. The vivid poetry of Sappho survived antiquity on remnants of damaged papyrus, riddled with gaps. The inscription on a beautiful fourth century B.C.E. grave praises the virtues of Mnesarete, an Athenian woman...
The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype (Bollingen)
AuthorErich Neumann
ISBN0691097429
Neumann examines how the Feminine has been experienced and expressed in many cultures from prehistory to our own time. Appearing as goddess and demon, gate and pillar, garden and tree, hovering sky and containing vessel, the Feminine is seen as an essential factor in the dialectical relation of individual...
Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life
AuthorKarl Kerényi
ISBN0691029156
No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the sensuous tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. In myth and image, in visionary experience and ritual representation, the Greeks possessed a complete expression of indestructible life, the essence...
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