No other edition offers extensive textual apparatus such as explanatory notes, plot summaries, particularly vital as stories are complex and interwoven. The Sultan Schahriar's misguided resolution to ... 続きを読む
Stories about dragons, serpents, and their slayers make up a rich and varied tradition within ancient mythology and folklore. In this sourcebook, Daniel Ogden presents a comprehensive and easily acces ... 続きを読む
Stories about dragons, serpents, and their slayers make up a rich and varied tradition within ancient mythology and folklore. In this sourcebook, Daniel Ogden presents a comprehensive and easily acces ... 続きを読む
Written by an expert but with the general reader in mind
Thematically arranged
Emphasizes diversity of source material
Simply and concisely explains and illuminates a fascinating and complex ... 続きを読む
Since the dawn of history people have used charms and spells to try to control their environment, and forms of divination to try to foresee the otherwise unpredictable chances of life. Many of these t ... 続きを読む
A lively and engaging exploration of fairy tales and their meaning
Considers fairy tale as both a genre and a literary form
Explores an array of classic and contemporary examples
Looks at cul ... 続きを読む
In this illustrated study Richard Buxton analyses Greek literary narratives and visual representations of the metamorphosis of humans and gods, as evidenced from Homer to Nonnos. Such tales have becom ... 続きを読む
Little Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs features over 2,000 proverbs and sayings from around the world, arranged across 250 subjects - from 'Books' and 'Borrowing' to 'Dreams' and 'Drink'. Each theme has ... 続きを読む
Looks at the origins of the study of myths, and how they have been applied to the arts and sciences
Reveals how a variety of theories can be applied to ancient myths, but also to modern mythology ... 続きを読む
Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze examines a series of twentieth and twenty-first century fictional works that adapt Greco-Roman myths of the catabasis, the heroic jou ... 続きを読む
