Gods, Heroes, & Kings
Title | Gods, Heroes, & Kings PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher R. Fee |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 260 |
Release | 2004-03-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780198038788 |
The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer's belief system met with the existing systems of gods, legends, and myths. In Gods, Heroes, and Kings, medievalist Christopher Fee and veteran myth scholar David Leeming unearth the layers of the British Isles' unique folkloric tradition to discover how this body of seemingly disparate tales developed. The authors find a virtual battlefield of myths in which pagan and Judeo-Christian beliefs fought for dominance, and classical, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Celtic narrative threads became tangled together. The resulting body of legends became a strange but coherent hybrid, so that by the time Chaucer wrote "The Wife of Bath's Tale" in the fourteenth century, a Christian theme of redemption fought for prominence with a tripartite Celtic goddess and the Arthurian legends of Sir Gawain-itself a hybrid mythology. Without a guide, the corpus of British mythology can seem impenetrable. Taking advantage of the latest research, Fee and Leeming employ a unique comparative approach to map the origins and development of one of the richest folkloric traditions. Copiously illustrated with excerpts in translation from the original sources,Gods, Heroes, and Kings provides a fascinating and accessible new perspective on the history of British mythology.
Gods, Heroes, & Kings
Title | Gods, Heroes, & Kings PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher R. Fee |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2004-03-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019803878X |
The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer's belief system met with the existing systems of gods, legends, and myths. In Gods, Heroes, and Kings, medievalist Christopher Fee and veteran myth scholar David Leeming unearth the layers of the British Isles' unique folkloric tradition to discover how this body of seemingly disparate tales developed. The authors find a virtual battlefield of myths in which pagan and Judeo-Christian beliefs fought for dominance, and classical, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Celtic narrative threads became tangled together. The resulting body of legends became a strange but coherent hybrid, so that by the time Chaucer wrote "The Wife of Bath's Tale" in the fourteenth century, a Christian theme of redemption fought for prominence with a tripartite Celtic goddess and the Arthurian legends of Sir Gawain-itself a hybrid mythology. Without a guide, the corpus of British mythology can seem impenetrable. Taking advantage of the latest research, Fee and Leeming employ a unique comparative approach to map the origins and development of one of the richest folkloric traditions. Copiously illustrated with excerpts in translation from the original sources,Gods, Heroes, and Kings provides a fascinating and accessible new perspective on the history of British mythology.
Kings, Beasts and Heroes
Title | Kings, Beasts and Heroes PDF eBook |
Author | Gwyn Jones |
Publisher | London ; New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 234 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Gods and Heroes in Art
Title | Gods and Heroes in Art PDF eBook |
Author | Lucia Impelluso |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Mythology, Classical |
ISBN | 9780892367023 |
A classical guide to the role both Greek and Roman mythology played in European art during the Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassical ages. Includes more than four hundred illustrations.
Gods, Heroes, and Monsters
Title | Gods, Heroes, and Monsters PDF eBook |
Author | Carolina López-Ruiz |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 622 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780190644819 |
"Features more mythological sagas from Apollodorus' Library and additional excerpts from his other work, including the stories of Deucalion, Dionysus, Bellerophon, Kadmos, and Tiresias" -- Publisher's website
Kings, Gods & Spirits from African Mythology
Title | Kings, Gods & Spirits from African Mythology PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Knappert |
Publisher | VNew York : Schocken ; Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre |
Total Pages | 92 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780805240184 |
A collection of African myths, legends and fables about gods, spirits, ghosts, heroes, and animals.
Gods and Heroes
Title | Gods and Heroes PDF eBook |
Author | Korwin Briggs |
Publisher | Workman Publishing |
Total Pages | 305 |
Release | 2018-08-21 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1523503785 |
Meet the Original Superheroes. Before there was Batman, Wonder Woman, or Black Panther...there was Indra, Hindu king of gods, who battled a fearsome snake to save the world from drought. Athena, the powerful Greek goddess of wisdom who could decide the fate of battles before they even began. Okuninushi, the Japanese hero who defeated eighty brothers to become king and then traded it all for a chance at immortality. Featuring more than 70 characters from 23 cultures around the world, this A-to-Z encyclopedia of mythology is a who's who of powerful gods and goddesses, warriors and kings, enchanted creatures and earthshaking giants whose stories have been passed down since the beginning of time—and are now given fresh life for a new generation of young readers. Plus, You'll Learn All About: Dragons: The Hydra, St. George's Dragon, and the Australian Rainbow Snake Giants: Grendel, Balor of the Evuil Eye, Polyphemus, and the Purusha with the thousand heads Monsters: Manticore, Sphinx, Minotaur, Thunderbird, and Echidne, mother of the Nemean lion that nearly killed Heracles Underworlds: Travel to Hades, Valhalla, and the Elysian Fields