Science of Mythology. Essays on the Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis, Paperback - Carl Kerenyi

Science of Mythology provides an account of the meaning and the purpose of mythic themes that is linked to modern life: the heroic battles between ...

Reducere. Essays on a Science of Mythology is a cooperative work between C. Ker nyi, who has been called "the most psychological of mythologists, " and C. G....

Reducere. DescriptionThe Sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens, was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates...

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We're used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or are. In The Ego Tunnel, philosopher Thomas Metzing...

The German art historian and critic Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was at the forefront of the modernist movement that defined the twentieth century. On...

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No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. This w...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe Syrian philosopher Iamblichus is famous for his accounts of ancient religious traditions: this book contains Thomas Taylor's transla...

The five stages of grief are so deeply imbedded in our culture that no American can escape them. Every time we experience loss--a personal or natio...

Reducere. "The Library of Greek Mythology" is a classic source of Greek mythology, heroes, and legend. Also known as the "Library of Apollodorus", or the "Bi...

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If you could fit our culture of convenience into a petri dish, what would it look like? Movement Matters is a series of essays in which biomechanis...

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Reducere. Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians, originally published in 1908 by the American Museum of Natural History, introduces such figures as Old Man, Sca...

DescriptionThe Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate ab...

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Now in its 8th edition, this magisterial work offers a comprehensive survey of the stories of Greek myth, from the Olympian gods, through the lesse...

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Reducere. The present volume is a verbatim reproduction of Thomas Taylor's translation of Iamblichus's Egyptian Mysteries, originally published in 1821. The ...

This is a lively and absorbing account of the world of Celtic myth and the role it has played in the development of western culture. Included here ...