A user-friendly edition for the student reading Homer in the original Greek

An examination of Greek mythology and a discussion about how religion and truth have evolved throughout time.

Twenty-six classic fairy tales are supplemented by extensive literary, cultural, and historical commentary. America is in decline.

'One of the great mythic poems of Europe' The New York Times Sharing its title with the poetic name for Finland - 'the land of heroes' - Kalevala is the soaring epic poem of its people, a work rich in magic and myth which tells the story of ...

" Girard persuades us that even as our world grows increasingly violent the power of the Christ-event is so great that the evils of scapegoating and sacrifice are being defeated even now.

When this book first appeared in 1977, it marked a revolution in the understanding of African American history.

Tracing La Llorona from ancient oral tradition to her appearance in contemporary material culture, There Was a Woman delves into the intriguing transformations of this provocative icon.

Its coverage of comparative and interpretative approaches as well as evidencefrom art and archeology is expanded in this edition.

In this book, first published in 2000, the synthesis of his mature understanding of the process beginning around 14,000 years ago challenges ecological and materialist interpretations, arguing for a quite different kind of understanding ...

Critically examining the discourse of Indo-European scholarship over the past two hundred years, Aryan Idols demonstrates how the interconnected concepts of “Indo-European” and “Aryan” as ethnic categories have been shaped by, and ...