Category: Mythology

By Edith Hamilton

ISBN-10: 0316223336

ISBN-13: 9780316223331

Due to the fact its unique ebook via Little, Brown and corporate in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has bought hundreds of thousands of copies through the global and proven itself as a perennial bestseller in its a number of on hand codecs: hardcover, exchange paperback, mass marketplace paperback, and publication. Mythology succeeds like no different e-book in bringing to lifestyles for the fashionable reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths and legends which are the keystone of Western tradition - the tales of gods and heroes that experience encouraged human creativity from antiquity to the current.

By Christopher C. Doyle

ISBN-10: 9384030597

ISBN-13: 9789384030599

334 B.C.
Alexander the nice starts off his conquest of the Persian Empire. yet his plansfor eternal glory don't finish there and the younger king marches in the direction of the Ends of the Earth - the lands of the Indus - on a mystery quest. it is going to lead him to an historic mystery. it is going to lead him to an historic mystery hid within the myths of the Mahabharata; a mystery that's strong sufficient to rework him right into a god..

PRESENT DAY
In Greece, the traditional tomb of a queen is stumbled on, a tomb that has been an enigma for over 2000 years.In New Delhi, the Intelligence Bureau discovers unexplained corpses in a hidden lab. Vijay Singh and his neighbors, now contributors of an elite job strength, are sucked right into a fight with a robust and ruthless enemy. In a perilous race opposed to time, they are going to have to clear up a riddle from antiquity that would cause them to come upon stunning secrets and techniques from the earlier; secrets and techniques that might display mystifying hyperlinks among historic historical past, the Mahabharata and the traditional enemy with diabolical plans for a destiny that might carry the realm to ransom.

The Quest has simply begun...

After the Mahabharata mystery, Christopher C Doyle all over again explores the technological know-how in the back of the long-lasting mythology of the Mahabharata and brings it alive in a latest environment. the result's a gripping tale that might retain you hooked correct until eventually the final web page.

By Joanna Kavenna

ISBN-10: 0670034738

ISBN-13: 9780670034734

An outstanding trip via fable and historical past looking for a misplaced world

To the ancients, Thule was once a land past the sting of the maps, a northerly dreamland. It was once a secret for millions of years, lengthy regarded as an icy Eden, a spot of beautiful attractiveness and unequaled purity. The misplaced international of Thule captured the mind's eye of poets, artists, explorers, and, such a lot lately, author Joanna Kavenna, who set out on a harrowing and exhilarating voyage of discovery. Her trip took her to Shetland, Iceland, Norway, Estonia, Greenland, and Svalbard-into the Arctic wasteland, over frozen seas and ice mountains-in seek of this such a lot haunting of northern areas.
As she travels, Kavenna reveals strains of past writers and seekers: Richard Francis Burton, William Morris, Anthony Trollope, and Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen. yet she involves notice darkness additionally inhabits Thule. She reveals ice-bound relics of the chilly battle. She reveals the tale of the Thule Society, an offshoot of the Nazi occasion, dedicated to the "purity" of the Nordic peoples. half diary, half detective path, The Ice Museum is a ask yourself voyage via panorama and delusion, equivalent to Lucy Jago's The Northern Lights and Barry Lopez's nationwide booklet Award-winning Arctic Dreams.

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By Neil Gaiman

ISBN-10: 0060558121

ISBN-13: 9780060558123

Published from legal, Shadow reveals his global grew to become the other way up. His spouse has been killed; a mysterious stranger deals him a task. yet Mr. Wednesday, who is familiar with extra approximately Shadow than is feasible, warns hurricane is coming -- a conflict for the very soul of the United States . . . and they're in its direct path.

One of the main talked-about books of the recent millennium, American Gods is a kaleidoscopic trip deep into delusion and throughout an American panorama right now eerily standard and completely alien. it's, simply, a modern masterpiece.

By Jo Graham

ISBN-10: 0316140945

ISBN-13: 9780316140942

In a time of warfare and doubt, Gull is an oracle. Daughter of a slave taken from fallen Troy, selected on the age of 7 to be the voice of the woman of the useless, she is destined to information kings.

When 9 black ships seem, captained through an exiled Trojan prince, Gull needs to come to a decision among the existence she used to be born for and a such a lot perilous event - to affix the remnant of her mother's humans of their determined flight. From the doomed bastions of the town of Pirates to the temples of Byblos, from the intrigues of the Egyptian courtroom to the haunted caves underneath Mount Vesuvius, in basic terms Gull can consultant Prince Aeneas on his quest, and in basic terms she will dare the gate of the Underworld to guide him to his destiny.

In the final shadowed days of the Age of Bronze, one lady goals of the area starting anew. this is often her tale.

By Rick Riordan

ISBN-10: 1423101472

ISBN-13: 9781423101475

All 12 months the half-bloods were getting ready for conflict opposed to the Titans, figuring out the percentages of victory are grim. Kronos's military is more suitable than ever, and with each god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan's strength basically grows. whereas the Olympians fight to comprise the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos starts off his enhance on long island urban, the place Mount Olympus stands nearly unguarded. Now it's as much as Percy Jackson and a military of younger demigods to forestall the Lord of Time.
In this momentous ultimate e-book within the long island occasions best-selling Percy Jackson and the Olympians sequence, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy's 16th birthday unfolds. and because the conflict for Western civilization rages at the streets of new york, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he might be struggling with opposed to his personal destiny.

By Ashok K. Banker

ISBN-10: 9382618325

ISBN-13: 9789382618324

One of many least-known, but so much poignant love tales, is the story of Devayani, daughter of Shukracharya, Guru of the Asuras, and Kacha son of Brihaspati, Guru of the Devas. The Devas or Gods of the Vedic age have been everlasting enemies of the Asuras or Demonic races. How may the son of the preceptor of the Gods probably wish to discover love and happiness with the daughter of the preceptor of the Demons? but love plant life within the unlikeliest areas and so Kacha and Devayani started to dream the most unlikely dream. Their love used to be doomed to finish tragically however the how and wherefore of the tragedy is what makes their tale so unforgettable. however the tale doesn’t finish there. in its place, it segues (after a spot of some years) into one other: the affection triangle of Devayani, her former good friend Sharmishtha, and the guy they either enjoyed, Yayati. After a quarrel together with her buddy Sharmishtha, Devayani used her father’s impact and tool to strength her good friend Sharmishtha to stay out the remainder of her existence as Devayani’s own maidservant. someday, Devayani stumbled on herself trapped on the backside of a good deep within the woodland. quickly after, a stranger wandering in the course of the wooded area, chanced throughout her.. On studying that he used to be Yayati, king of a strong state, she blackmailed him right into a courting. yet unknown to Devayani, Yayati fell in love with Sharmishtha, leading to a love triangle that presages the plots of numerous present-day cleaning soap operas. learn directly to see how Ashok’s storytelling shines fantastic mild upon this gem pried free from the mosaic of his personal Mahabharata sequence.

By Kate McMullan

ISBN-10: 1496500415

ISBN-13: 9781496500410

The Trojan conflict is over, yet now Odysseus has to discover his means domestic to Ithaca...and in common type, he's angered Poseidon sufficient that the sea-god has made up our minds to make his trip depressing (if no longer impossible). yet Hades has a gentle spot for the long-gone warrior, so whether he's sworn to Poseidon he won't support Odysseus at once, he could possibly pull a number of strings...

By Mircea Eliade

ISBN-10: 0691123500

ISBN-13: 9780691123509

This founding paintings of the historical past of religions, first released in English in 1954, secured the North American attractiveness of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986). Making connection with an wonderful variety of cultures and drawing on scholarship released in not less than part a dozen ecu languages, Eliade's The fantasy of the everlasting Return makes either intelligible and compelling the non secular expressions and actions of a wide selection of archaic and "primitive" non secular cultures. whereas acknowledging go back to the "archaic" isn't any longer attainable, Eliade passionately insists at the worth of figuring out this view so that it will improve our modern mind's eye of what it really is to be human. Jonathan Z. Smith's new creation offers the contextual historical past to the booklet and provides a severe define of Eliade's argument in a manner that encourages readers to have interaction in an educated dialog with this vintage text.

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By Hiroshi Naito

ISBN-10: 1462907725

ISBN-13: 9781462907724

These twenty-two eastern stories open to Western readers the realm of myth within the mythical literature of Japan—a global of ogres, monkeys, goblins, and priest, of spelling-casting and rescuing people.

Rich in style, Legends of Japan comprises stories of the supernatural, magic, and deities, in addition to stories of romance and intrigue. The vividness and aesthetic allure of those tales is improved by way of twenty-two woodblock prints from the studio of contemporary eastern illustrator Masahiko Nishin.

The stories are drawn from eastern masterpieces of the Heian (794-1185) and Kamakura (1192-1333) sessions. the sooner and major resource is 31-volume Konjaku Monogatari, a suite of stories of jap, chinese language and Indian beginning. the opposite resource is the miscellany Tsurezure Gusa, via Kento Yoshida, a monk of noble start who used to be good versed in eastern and chinese language literature. A reader's pride, those little books distills the colour and beauty, the knowledge and humor of 2 nice treasuries of classical Asian literature.