Penguin Classics, December 1972. Mass Market PaperBack. Miraculously preserved on clay tablets deciphered only in the last century, the cycle of poems collected around the character of Gilgamesh, the great king of Ukruk, tells of his long and arduous journey to the Spring of Youth, of his encounters with monsters..... More

Johns Hopkins University Press, July 2013. Trade Paperback. The best-selling English translation of the mysterious and cosmic Greek poetry known as the Orphic Hymns. At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and..... More

Cambridge University Press, December 1990. Trade Paperback. Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the foremost living African writers, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa. The ways in which the African world perceives itself as a cultural entity, and..... More

Thames & Hudson, April 2022. Hardcover. How do ancient Greek myths find themselves retold and reinterpreted in cultures across the world, several millennia later? In this volume, bestselling author Richard Buxton explores the power that eight iconic Greek myths hold in the modern world. Buxton traces these stories and archetypes..... More

W. W. Norton & Company, December 2003. Trade Paperback. Professor Jan Harold Brunvand expands his examination of the phenomenon of urban legends, those improbable, believable stories that always happen to a friend of a friend. The paperback version of Brunvand's latest collection of urban legends and folklore which was preceded..... More

Indiana University Press, June 1962. Trade Paperback. The Golden Ass by Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in entirety from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex..... More

George Braziller, June 1975. First American. Cloth. Octavo in lightly edgeworn DJ. Front flap is not clippe. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine. First published in England in 1891 and then its 2nd edition was 1892. In 1974 Architectural Press published this version, again in England. As..... More

FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS, January 1973. Reprint. Soft Cover. Small quarto. {6 & 3/4' x 9 & 3/4'} Rubbing. Considerable wear at edges & corners. Creased spine. Dust stains/foxing to textblock edges. 110 pages. More

Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1964. Trade Paperback. More

Mazda Pub, June 1996. Paper Back. More

Reeves and Turner, January 1892. Hardcover. No jacket. Cover is suuned toward the spine and spine's gilt lettering is rubbed. Former owner's bookplate on front paste down endpaper. Starting after front endpapers, half title page is loose, but pages are clean, foxing limited to front and back endpapers. More

Penguin (Non-Classics), September 1970. Trade Paperback. As is. Undelining in pencil on several pages. More