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.

Husain Haddawy's critically acclaimed Arabian Nights, based on Muhsin Mahdi's landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant version. This book has a collection of 35 tales from the 'Nights.'

A rich source for students of Greek mythology and literature, the Homeric hymns are also fine poetry.

Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own.

Through the whole history, one senses the gradual rise of a national awareness. Snorri Sturluson is, without compare, the greatest historian of the Middle Ages.

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...