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The Goddess: Myths and Stories
by Lindell Barker-Revell
Twenty stories of heroism, betrayal love and joy of goddesses from cultures around the world. 160p, col pls (Smithmark 1999)
Hardback. Price GB £6.95
Cabiriaca: Recherches sur l'iconographie du culte des Cabires
by Michele Daumas
Excavations in Thebes, Lemnos and Samothrace have revealed much about the Cabiri, subsidiary divinities worshipped in Greek mystery cult, whose identity was known only to initiates. The author of this work takes as his starting-point the Cabirion of ...
Paperback. Price GB £55.00
Pantheons des cites des origines a la Periegese de Pausaniasa
edited by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
14 essays look at the development of the idea of a pantheon of Gods and Godesses in Greek religious thought, and attempt to define what exactly the idea meant in Ancient Greece. Essays mostly in French. 261p b/w illus (Kernos Supplement 8 1998)
Paperback. Price GB £45.00
The Power of the Bull
by Michael Rice
The ancient fascination with the bull is well-known, from stories of gods assuming their shape to seduce mortal women and the enduring legend of the Minotaur, to the use of the bull as a favoured sacrificial victim. Yet the cult of the bull was not ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00
The Great God Pan
by John Boardman
A lively survey by a leading expert on Greek art, examining the representation of the cloven-hoofed deity from archaic Greece, through Pan's `rediscovery' in the Renaissance and up to our own times, accompanied by many illustrations of related art and ...
Hardback. Price GB £7.95
Greek Myths and Mesopotamia
by Charles Penglase
This book investigates the nature and extent of Mesopotamian influence in Greek religious mythological works of the early archaic period, with the aim of elucidating Greek myths and the nature of the mythology invloved. Beginning with Mesopotamian myths ...
Paperback. Price GB £24.99
Hera: Images, Espaces, Cultes
edited by J. de La Genière
A collection of articles by archaeologists and religious historians about the goddess Hera, exploring themes such as image, iconography, divinity and society, aswell as reporting on recent research at the sanctuaries of Argos, Samos and Foce del Sele. ...
Hardback. Price GB £39.00
Medea
edited by James J. Clauss and Sarah Iles Johnston
Twelve essays examine representations of Medea in myth, art and literature, and the philosophical, psychological and cultural questions these portrayals raise. 376p (Princeton UP 1997)
Paperback. Price GB £22.95
Myth
by Laurence Coupe
An overview of the evolution of the term myth, from its use by the ancient Greeks to its role in contemporary literary culture. Coupe gives a clear two-stage. First he acquaints the reader with key mythic themes through familiar works; then he focuses on ...
Paperback. Price GB £10.99
Hardback. Price GB £45.00
Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence
by Carl Kerenyi
Prometheus was the god who stole fire from Olympus to give to mortal men, punished by Zeus through a daily evisceration by an eagle, and finally rescued by Herakles. Kerenyi examines his story from a variety of perspectives, looking at how the myth ...
Paperback. Price GB £10.95
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