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Mythology (or myths) and rituals are very important to many - if not most - cultures. For this theme collection we have drawn from the collections of Religious Studies, Philosophy, Anthropology, Sociology, Archaeology, History and Art History.
Immerse yourself - in stories, on canvas and on screen - in the world of godesses and gods, folk tales and mythical creatures, and ancient ceremonies.
Don't forget to visit the Theme Cabinet on the second floor of the UB.
Love stories
Love, Sexuality and Desire
Thomas J. Sienkewicz (ed.)
Orpheus and Eurydice
Tom de Freston; Kiran Millwood Hargrave
How to Get over a Breakup
Ovid, Michael Fontaine (Translated with commentary by)
Marriage Rites and Rights
Rebecca Probert, Joanna Miles, Perveez Mody
Love and the Soul
James Gollnick
The Myth of Hero and Leander
Silvia Montiglio
From Ritual to Romance
Jessie L. Weston, Robert A. Segal (ed.)
Women in myths
Women of Myth
Jenny Williamson; Genn McMenemy; Sara Richard (Illustrator)
Classical receptions and impact of Xena, Warrior Princess
Amanda Potter, Anise K Strong
African mythology, femininity, and maternity
Soukeyna Diop
Ancient Greek Women in Film
Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (ed.)
Herstories on screen. Feminist subversions of frontier myths
Kathleen Cummins
Portrait of a Priestess
Joan Breton Connelly
Persephone Rising
Zaharati Morfesis
The Persephone Myth in Young Adult Fiction From Girl to Woman
Cristina Salcedo González
Off with Her Head!
Howard Eilberg-Schwartz, Wendy Doniger
Metamorphoses
Ovid: Metamorphoses. Translated by Stephanie McCarter. New York: Penguin Books, 2022.
The Lost Girls
Andrew D. Radford
In Search of the Lost Feminine
Craig S. Barnes
The Cold Counsel
Sarah M. Anderson, Karen Swenson (ed.)
Manifestations of myths
Avatar and Nature Spirituality
Bron Taylor (ed.)
A Moving Feast
Hizky Shoham
Indo-European Fire Rituals
Anders Kaliff, Terje Oestigaard
The Serpent Column: a cultural biography
Paul Stephenson
Tales of Darkness
Robert Ellwood
Mythology
David Adams Leeming
Star Stories
Star Stories
Sacred Wells
Gary R. Varner
Creation stories: landscapes and the human imagination
Anthony F. Aveni
Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore
Juliette Wood
Art
David to Delacroix
Dorothy Johnson
An Inquiry into the Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology
Richard Payne Knight
Fantasy Aesthetics
Hans Rudolf Velten, Joseph Imorde, Lukas Schrage
Film as Religion. Myths, Morals, and Rituals
John C. Lyden
Under the Spell of Orpheus
Judith E. Bernstock
Gods and Mortals
Sarah Iles Johnston
Ovid on Screen
Martin M. Winkler
Tolkien's Art
Jane Chance
Literature and Film As Modern Mythology
William K. Ferrell
Greek & Roman
Classical Mythology: the Basics
Richard Martin
Gods and Goddesses in the Garden
Peter Bernhardt
Allusions and Reflections : Greek and Roman Mythology in Renaissance Europe.
Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre
Gods and Mortals
Sarah Iles Johnston
Greek Myths for a Post-Truth World
Yiannis Gabriel
After Antiquity
Margaret Alexiou
Myths and Tragedies in Their Ancient Greek Contexts
Richard Buxton
Mythogenesis, interdiscursivity, ritual : studies presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis
Burkhard Fehr & Panagiotis Roilos (eds.)
Greek Poems to the Gods
Barry B. Powell
Nobody's Mother
Sandra L. Glahn
The Gods of Ancient Greece
Jan N. Bremmer, et al
War in Greek Mythology
Paul Chrystal
The South
African Tales
Harold Scheub
Black Prometheus
Jared Hickman
Wisdom and Initiation in Gabon
Bonaventure Mvé Ondo
Over the Lip of the World
Colleen J. McElroy
Magical Realism in West African Fiction
Brenda Cooper
The Americas
Ruins, Caves, Gods, and Incense Burners
Didier Boremanse
Cormac McCarthy: an American apocalypse
Markus Wierschem
Failed Frontiersmen
James J. Donahue
Donald Trump in the frontier mythology
Olena V. Leipnik
Persephone in America
Alison Townsend
Time and the ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec ritual art
Maarten E.R.G.N Jansen, Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez
Oglala Women
Marla N. Powers
Decoding Andean Mythology
Margarita Marín-Dale
Under the Shade of Thipaak
Michael D. Carrasco; Angélica Cibrián-Jaramillo; Mark A. Bonta; Joshua D. Englehardt (Eds.)
La Palabra Recuperada
Helena Usandizaga (Editor)
Myths, Legends, and Folktales of America
David Leeming; Jake Page
Creation Myths of Primitive America
Karl Kroeber (Editor)
Tales of the Earth
David Leeming
Huellas Del Mito Prehispánico en la Literatura Latinoamericana
Magdalena Chocano (Editor); William Rowe Y. Helena Usandizaga (Editor)
Northern Europe
The Saga of the Volsungs
Jesse L. Byock (trans.)
Norse Mythology
John Lindow
Celtic Mythology
Philip Freeman
Old Norse Mythology - Comparative Perspectives
Pernille Hermann (Editor); Stephen A. Mitchell (Editor); Jens Peter Schjodt (Editor); Amber J. Rose (Editor)
The Poetic Edda
Larrington, Carolyne (trans.)
Norse Mythology: the Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook
Kelsey A. Fuller-Shafer; Sara Richard (Illustrator)
The Myths and Realities of the Viking Berserkr
Roderick Dale
Myths of the Pagan North
Christopher Abram
English Poetry and Old Norse Myth
Heather O'Donoghue
Ireland's Immortals
Mark Williams
Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity
Marion Gibson (Editor); Shelley Trower (Editor); Garry Tregidga (Editor)
Myth, magic, and memory in early Scandinavian narrative culture: studies in honour of Stephen A. Mitchell
Jürg Glauser(Redacteur)Pernille Hermann(Redacteur)Stefan Brink(Redacteur)Joseph Harris 1940-(Redacteur)
Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth
Bernard Saladin d'Anglure
Volcanoes in Old Norse Mythology
Mathias Nordvig
The East
Adapa and the South Wind
Shlomo Izre'el
Myths and Legends of China
E.T.C. Werner
Hebrew myths: the book of Genesis
Robert Graves, Raphael Patai
An Illustrated Guide to Korean Mythology
Won-Oh Choi
The Religious Culture of India
Friedhelm Hardy
Jealous Gods and Chosen People
David Adams Leeming
The Head Beneath the Altar
Brian Collins
General Mythology & Comparative Studies
Myth and Meaning
Claude Lévi-Strauss
The Disappearance of Rituals
Byung-Chul Han
The Historical Value of Myths
John Karabelas
Jung on Mythology
C.G. Jung