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subject:"Social Science / Folklore & Mythology" from books.google.com
Antigone raises issues of law and morality that are just as relevant today as they were more than two thousand years ago. Whether this is your first reading or your twentieth, Antigone will move you as few pieces of literature can.
subject:"Social Science / Folklore & Mythology" from books.google.com
Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own.
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Beginning with the dim prehistory of the mythical gods and their descendants, Snorri Sturluson tells us how scions of those descendants, the Swedish kings, colonised and subdued Norway, shire by shire, until King Harald Fairhair united the ...
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The hymns presented in this book were anonymously composed somewhere in Asia Minor, most likely in the middle of the third century AD. At this turbulent time, the Hellenic past was fighting for its survival, while the new Christian faith ...
subject:"Social Science / Folklore & Mythology" from books.google.com
A rich source for students of Greek mythology and literature, the Homeric hymns are also fine poetry.
subject:"Social Science / Folklore & Mythology" from books.google.com
Originally published under title: Dictionary of Chicano folklore. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2000.
subject:"Social Science / Folklore & Mythology" from books.google.com
More than one hundred line drawings and a sixteen-page color insert reproduce some of the finest illustrations of the original book, while reset and reformatted text makes this edition of The Secret Teachings of All Ages newly accessible to ...
subject:"Social Science / Folklore & Mythology" from books.google.com
Revealed here is the evolution of man from savagery to civilization, from the modification of his weird and often bloodthirsty customs to the entry of lasting moral, ethical, and spiritual values.
subject:"Social Science / Folklore & Mythology" from books.google.com
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 ...
subject:"Social Science / Folklore & Mythology" from books.google.com
Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths and legends that are the keystone of Western culture -- the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity ...