HUMN 3H World Myths in Literature, Arts & Film: General Mythology

At the heart of the dictionary lie entries on the meaning and origin of a vast range of words and expressions, from everyday English phrases to Latin tags. Alongside these are articles on people and events in mythology and religion, and on folk customs, superstitions and beliefs.

Identifies heros, gods, goddesses, demons, giants, monsters, animals, objects and places featured in the world's mythologies.

Divided into ten sections, includes creation myths from Africa, Mesoamerica and South America, North America, the Far East, Europe (including Norse and Celtic myths), Oceania and the Pacific, Egypt, Greece and Rome, India, and the Near East. The 400+ entries are divided into Myths and Stories, Gods and Goddesses, and Selected Sources and Authors.

Covers battle myths from Greece, ancient Rome, and Northern and Celtic Europe as well as myths from sub-Saharan Africa, Native North America, East Asia, the Near East, Oceana, (particularly Hawaii), India, Central and South America, and Eastern Europe. Coverage of female warriors from around the world highlights the role women have played in mythological battles throughout history.

Focuses on the metamorphosis of mythic figures in the process of history. This work aims to illustrate how this concept works in modern storytelling, as goddesses become heroines in literature and film. It establishes that seasons are the source, not the accessory, of all imaginative conceptions of plot, character, and theme.

The various Indo-European branches had a shared linguistic and cultural origin in prehistory, and this book sets out to overcome the difficulties about understanding the gods who were inherited by the later literate cultures from this early “silent” period by modelling the kind of society where the gods could have come into existence.

The first anthology ever to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories--from myths and fairy tales to jokes .

This classic study deals primarily with societies around the world in which myth supplies models for human behavior, & by that very fact, gives meaning & value to life.

Since its release in 1949,The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell’s revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. I

The author discusses the primitive, oriental, occidental and creative roots of mythology in this four volume set. He examines them in light of the most recent discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology

Campbell's major study of the mythology of the world's high civilizations over five millennia. It includes nearly 450 illustrations.

This extraordinary best-seller is a brilliant evocation of the noted scholar's teachings on mythology.