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1	The Odyssey more books like this by Stanley P Baldwin, M.A. 39 New and Revised Titles. The Best Just Got Better! Plus Glossary from Websters New World Dictionary Anthem Atlas Shrugged Beowulf Brave New World The Canterbury Tales The Catcher in the Rye The Contender The Crucible The Fountainhead Frankenstein The Grapes of Wrath Great Expectations The Great Gatsby Hamlet Heart of Darkness and The Secret ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.15! \| SVS
2	Old Age: Journey Into Simplicity more books like this by Helen M Luke (Read by) In this classic text on ageing wisely, the renowned Jungian analyst Helen M. Luke reflects on the final journeys described in Homer's "Odyssey", Shakespeare's "King Lear" and "The Tempest", and T. S. Eliot's "Little Gidding". In examining some of the great masterpieces of literature produced by writers at the end of their lives, she elucidates the ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $30.00!
3	A Companion to the Iliad more books like this by Malcolm M Willcock Willcock provides a line-by-line commentary that explains allusions and Homeric conventions that a student or general reader could not be expected to bring to an initial encounter with the Iliad. see all copies from $2.46! new only from $10.72! \| signed copies \| SVS
4	Oedipus Tyrannus: A New Translation. Passages from Ancient Authors. Religion and Psychology: Some Studies. Criticism more books like this by Sophocles, Theodore F Brunner (Editor), Luci Berkowitz (Translator) The text is accompanied by a wealth of carefully chosen background materials and essays. Among the background materials are selections from Homer's Odyssey, Thucydides' account of the plague, and Euripides' Phoenissae. The best of ancient and modern criticism is represented, permitting discussion from many points of view: psychological, religious, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Hero and the Goddess: The Odyssey as Mystery and Initiation more books like this by Jean Houston The Hero and the Goddess explores the transformational power of one of the world's greatest stories--The Odyssey. This classic tale of adventures and exploits is the supreme metaphor in the Western mind for spiritual initiation. Jean Houston interprets each episode from the epic--including Odysseus's confrontation with the Cyclops, his temptation ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	The hobbit companion more books like this by David Day The Hobbit Companion delves into the origin and evolution of these hairy-footed creatures and allows the reader an insight into their world, including their homes, their habits, and their battles. ' see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Sophocles: Oedipus Rex more books like this by Sophocles, R D Dawe (Editor) 'Sophocles ...created a masterpiece that in the eyes of posterity has overshadowed every other achievement in the field of ancient drama ...' With these words Dr Dawe sets out the importance of Oedipus Rex. He investigates why it has for so long fascinated the human mind, devoting his introduction to an examination of the story and to the ... see all copies from $17.04! new only from $17.04! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Odyssey: A Verse Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism more books like this by Homer, Albert Cook (Editor) Albert Cook's verse translation of Homer's epic poem forms the core of this revised and updated second edition. The text is followed by revised background and criticism sections. The section "The Odyssey in Antiquity" underlines Homer's central position in Greek culture. see all copies from $2.51! new only from $13.92! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy more books like this by Charles Higgins, Regina Kirby Higgins Oedipus, the banished king of Greek mythology who killed his father and married his mother, is the subject of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy, a series of three tragedies that tell a connected story. Despite their antiquity, these timeless works bring up questions that remain relevant in our society, and their exciting, colorful stories have a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| SVS
10	A Guide to the Odyssey: A Commentary on the English Translation of Robert Fitzgerald more books like this by Ralph Hexter It seems almost impossible for a contemporary reader fully to grasp The Odyssey without an education in classical mythology, archaeology, and geography. But this masterly companion to Homer's epic bridges the gulf that separates us from the Homeric world. Its scholarly introduction, illustrations, chronology, and hundreds of specific line ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $12.64! \| first editions
11 view cover	Somewhere I Have Never Travelled: The Hero's Journey more books like this by Thomas Van Nortwick Exploring the hero's journey as a metaphor for spiritual evolution, this book offers a close, original reading of three seminal works of epic poetry: the Epic of Gilgamesh. Homer's Iliad, and Virgil's Aeneid. An excellent introduction to the central themes and historical development of the epic form. Somewhere I Have Never Travelled is also a ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Divine Woman: Dragon Ladies and Rain Maidens in T'Ang Literature more books like this by Edward H Schafer This important exploration of Chinese mythology focuses on the diverse and evocative associations between women and water in the literature of the T'ang dynasty as well as in the enormous classical canon it inherited. By extension, it peers from medieval China back into the mists of ancient days, when snake queens, river goddesses, and dragon ... see all copies from $5.64! new only from $93.20!
13 view cover	Hellenistic Poetry more books like this by G O Hutchinson The work of the Hellenistic poets in the third century BC has not only an important place in Greek literature, but also a particular significance for Latin poetry. Despite much technical work on the texts and language of these authors - Theocritus, Callimachus, Apollonius Rhodius, and others - previous literary criticism on most of the major ... see all copies from $11.50! new only from $28.41! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Oedipus Trilogy more books like this by Sophocles Spender's adaptation of the Sophocles tragedies is based primarily on the translation by R. C. Jebb, and was arranged to be performed in a single evening for the Oxford Playhouse. It was first produced in 1983. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.37! \| SVS
15 view cover	The Sin of Knowledge: Ancient Themes and Modern Variations more books like this by Theodore Ziolkowski Adam, Prometheus, and Faust - their stories were central to the formation of Western consciousness and continue to be timely cautionary tales in an age driven by information and technology. Here Theodore Ziolkowski explores how each myth represents a response on the part of ancient Hebrew, ancient Greek, and sixteenth-century Christian culture to ... see all copies from $3.30! new only from $36.00!
16 view cover	Homer: The Odyssey more books like this by Jasper Griffin This handy guide to The Odyssey will introduce students to a text, which has been fundamental to literature for nearly 3000 years. Readers will be introduced to the world in that the Odyssey was produced, to the text itself and to its origins in oral poetry. This volume gives a summary of the poem and examines its structure. The unity, values and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.28! \| SVS
17 view cover	Sophocles' Oedipus Rex more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom (Editor) Written by Sophocles around 425 BCE, "Oedipus Rex, or Oedipus the King" is a classic Greek tragedy in that it depicts the search for self-understanding, and the struggle between man and fate. The story forms the foundation for the symbolic conflict between fathers and sons. Bloom's "Modern Critical Interpretations" offers a range of salient ... see all copies from $2.82! new only from $19.78! \| first editions \| SVS
18	On the Iliad more books like this by Rachel Bespaloff see all copies from $2.01! first editions
19 view cover	Orpheus in the Middle Ages more books like this by John Block Friedman John B. Friedman takes the reader through the journey of a myth -- where Orpheus becomes an Orpheus-Christus, a courtly knight and the writer of love lyrics. see all copies from $10.39! new only from $24.35! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Aeschylus: The Oresteia more books like this by Simon Goldhill This is the only general introduction in English to Aeschylus' Oresteia, one of the most important and most influential of all Greek dramas. It discusses the Greek drama festival and the social and political background of Greek tragedy, and offers a reading of this central trilogy. Simon Goldhill focuses on the play's themes of justice, sexual ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $16.42! \| first editions
21 view cover	Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics more books like this by Nancy Felson A coy tease, enchantress, adulteress, irresponsible mother, hard-hearted wife -- such are the possible images of Penelope that Homer playfully presents to listeners and readers of the Odyssey. His narration ultimately contradicts or fails to confirm these images, however, leaving Penelope as the paragon of the faithful wife. In Regarding Penelope, ... see all copies from $3.12! new only from $4.93!
22 view cover	The Moon and the Western Imagination more books like this by Scott L Montgomery The Moon is at once a face with a thousand expressions and the archetypal planet. Throughout history it has been gazed upon by people of every culture in every walk of life. From early perceptions of the Moon as an abode of divine forces, humanity has in turn accepted the mathematized Moon of the Greeks, the naturalistic lunar portrait of Jan van ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions
23 view cover	Tolkien's Art: A Mythology for England more books like this by Jane Chance J.R.R. Tolkien's zeal for mediaeval literary, religious and cultural ideas deeply influenced his entire life and provided the seeds for his own fiction. This study discusses not only such classics as "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Silmarillion", but focuses on his minor works as well, outlining in detail the sources and influences ... see all copies from $7.50! new only from $11.95! \| SVS
24 view cover	Homeric Soundings: The Shaping of the Iliad more books like this by Oliver Taplin This book combines the exploration of the "ethics" of the Iliad with its poetic and narrative techniques, which extend all the way from touches of phrasing to the shaping of whole scenes often separated by thousands of lines. these two approaches to the Iliad - through "form" and through "content" - are found to be inextricably worked together, ... see all copies from $37.37! new only from $68.06! \| SVS
25 view cover	Mythology and the Renaissance tradition in English poetry more books like this by Douglas Bush see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.86! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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