The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return. Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and ...Show more
Medea: A New Translation by Euripides; Charles Martin (Translator); A. E. Stallings (Introduction by); Charles Alexander Martin
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Medea of Euripides is one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one with the most significance today. A barbarian woman brought to Corinth and there abandoned by her Greek husband, Medea seeks vengeance on Jason and is willing to strike out against his new wife and family--even sla ...Show more
Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn; Andrei Codrescu; Jack Zipes
$49.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales Ser.
A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio HearnLafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was one of the nineteenth century's best-known writers, his name celebrated alongside those of Mark Twain and Robert Louis Steve ...Show more
Aladdin - A New Translation by Paulo Lemos Horta (Editor); Yasmine Seale (Translator)
$40.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Long defined by popular film adaptations that have reductively portrayed Aladdin as a simplistic rags-to-riches story for children, this work of dazzling imagination--and occasionally dark themes--finally comes to vibrant new life. "In the capital of one of China's vast and wealthy kingdoms," begins Sha ...Show more
Egyptian Myths by Garry J. Shaw
$26.99 AUD
Category: Egyptian Lore | Reading Level: very good
This handy guide to Egyptian mythology explores how the ancient Nile-dwellers explained the world around them. It delves into the origins of life, the creation and evolution of the world, and the reigns of the gods on earth, before introducing us to the manifestations of Egypt_s deities in the natural e ...Show more
Egyptian Mythology: Gods, Goddesses... by Geraldine Pinch
$30.95 AUD
Category: Egyptian Lore
Spanning Ancient Egyptian culture (ca. 3200 BC to AD 400), this 'Handbook of Egyptian Mythology' is a complete survey of Egyptian mythology.
Olympian Gods: Coll...Sculptures Dresden by Bjorn C. Ewald (Contribution by); Kordelia Knoll (Contribution by); Saskia Wetzig; Stephan Koja; Michael Philipp; Ortrud Westheider
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art & Deluxe Editions
Featuring ancient Greek and Roman sculpture, this book explores the history and legacy of ancient statues of Olympian gods. For people in ancient Greece, ornately and imposingly fashioned statues depicting the gods symbolized power or ideal beauty. During the Roman Empire, when sculptors copied Gree ...Show more
Complete World of Greek Mythology by Richard Buxton
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art & Deluxe Editions | Series: The\Complete Ser.
The most authoritative illustrated guide to the world of Greek mythology. From the first millennium BC onwards, Greek myths have been repeated in an inexhaustible series of variations and reinterpretations. Nowadays they can be found in film, television and computer games. This book combines a retelling ...Show more
Trickster Makes This World: How Disruptive Imaginatiomn Creates Culture by Lewis Hyde
$22.99 AUD
Category: Creativity & Art Therapies | Series: Canons
Trickster disrupted the world around him, and in doing so he reshaped it. Playful, mischievous, subversive, amoral, tricksters are a great bother to have around, but they are also indispensable heroes of culture. Trickster Makes This World revisits the stories of Coyote, Eshu and Hermes and holds them u ...Show more
Hero is You by Kendra Levin
$35.95 AUD
Category: Creativity & Art Therapies | Series: Open Center Book Ser.
Imagine having your own personal mentor someone encouraging yet honest, supportive yet empowering, who could help you set and achieve your goals, turn your moments of doubt and fear into sources of strength, and discover what you re truly capable of when you re at your best.Kendra Levin is that mentor. ...Show more
The Penguin Book Of Hell by Scott G. Bruce
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guant namo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares." --The New York Times Book Review Three thousand years of visions of Hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century v ...Show more