Folklore & Mythology
epub |eng | 2017-08-10 | Author:Joseph Campbell

Chapter 7 — GREAT ROME: 500 b.c.–500 a.d. I. The Celtic Province Caesar’s Gallic wars, commencing in 58 b.c., opening Europe to the empire of Rome as Pompey’s wars had ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology May 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-13 | Author:Helen Morales [Morales, Helen]

Diana, or, as the Greeks called her, Artemis, has come back in vogue in New Age feminism and in popular culture. These Dianas range from sanitized versions of the goddess ...
( Category: Feminist Theory April 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elsie Clews Parson

EARTH-TONGUE, A MOHAVE Earth-tongue’s earliest recollection was of the dim, cool house, where he picked bits of charcoal out of the soft sand and crumbled it against his hand. Once ...
( Category: Native American Studies April 20,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2006-04-26 | Author:Jackson, Kenneth [Jackson, Kenneth]

159. You Are Whiter than the Swan … You are whiter than the swan on the swampy lake, you are whiter than the white sea-gull of the stream, you are ...
( Category: European April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1973-05-30 | Author:

THE TALE OF KAFUR THE BLACK EUNUCH KNOW, my friends, that when no more than eight years of age I had already cultivated a remarkable habit of telling one big ...
( Category: Multicultural April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-06-23 | Author:Doniger, Wendy [Doniger, Wendy]

KŖṢŅA Like Rāma, Kṛṣņa is an ‘Epic’ figure in two senses of the word: he appears in one of the two great Sanskrit Epics (the Mahābhārata), and he is a ...
( Category: Vedas April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Apollonius of Rhodes

BOOK 4 Now Zeus’ daughter, deathless Muse, describe for me the Colchian maiden’s wiles and worries. The mind within me spins in speechlessness, wondering whether I should call the impulse ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1981-09-16 | Author:Gantz, Jeffrey [Gantz, Jeffrey]

The Boyhood Deeds of Cú Chulaind ‘In truth, he was reared by his mother and his father at Airgdech in Mag Muirthemni,’ said Fergus. ‘There he was told of the ...
( Category: Family Saga April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-22 | Author:Linda J. Bottjer

( Category: Houses & Hotels April 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-14 | Author:Helen Morales [Morales, Helen]

Diana, or, as the Greeks called her, Artemis, has come back in vogue in New Age feminism and in popular culture. These Dianas range from sanitized versions of the goddess ...
( Category: Feminist Theory April 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ziolkowski, Theodore.;

Gilgamesh Psychoanalyzed Despite the early interest of Freud and Jung, which we noted in chapter 1, and the conspicuous exception of Joseph Campbell, the Gilgamesh epic was essentially neglected in ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-17 | Author:Marie de France [France, Marie de]

X THE LAY OF THE HONEYSUCKLE With a glad heart and right good mind will I tell the Lay that men call Honeysuckle; and that the truth may be known ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic April 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Norman Fischer

What does this story tell us? That what’s alluring, what’s dangerous, the shimmering enchanting thing that perhaps we ought to flee from because it might turn us into beasts, cannot ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology April 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-25 | Author:Comtesse de Segur

THE PRINCE GRACIOUS WHILE Rosalie was thus quietly sleeping, the prince Gracious was engaged in a hunt through the forest by torch-light. The fawn, pursued fiercely by the dogs, came ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage April 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-14 | Author:Susan Davis

OPENING UP FOLKLORE In the United States, things were moving forward in the academic folklore field: Legman was astounded when Richard Dorson invited him to speak on erotic folk song ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic April 11,2020 )