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The Chalice & the Blade
Our History, Our Future
by Riane Tennenhaus Eisler
The phenomenal bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide, now with a new epilogue from the author-- The Chalice and the Blade has inspired a generation of women and men to envision a truly egalitarian society by exploring the legacy of the peaceful, goddess-worshipping cultures from our prehistoric past.
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The Aegean Bronze Age (Cambridge World Archaeology)
by O. T. P. K. Dickinson
Oliver Dickinson has written a scholarly, accessible and up-to-date introduction to the prehistoric civilizations of Greece. The Aegean Bronze Age saw the rise and fall of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. The cultural history of the region emerges through a series of thematic chapters that treat settlement, economy, crafts, exchange and foreign contact, and religion and burial customs. Students and teachers... (more)
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Fossil Legends of the First Americans
by Adrienne Mayor
The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the dinosaur fossils exposed by the elements. What did Native Americans make of these stone skeletons, and how did they explain the teeth and claws of gargantuan animals no... (more)
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The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times.
by Adrienne Mayor
Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous creatures once roamed the earth in the very places where their legends first arose? This is the arresting and original... (more)
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Ancient Greece
From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times
by Thomas R. Martin
Using primary sources the political, military, social, cultural and religious histories of Ancient Greece are covered. There are relevant time lines, maps, plans and photographs. Particular attention is also given to the society, literature and architecture in its golden age.
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Lost goddesses of early Greece: A collection of pre-Hellenic mythology
by Charlene Spretnak
"Charlene Spretnak has succeeded extremely well in presenting pure characterizations of the Old European goddesses as they were revered for millennia, long before the Indo-European elements were imposed to create Olympian mythology." -Marija Gimbutas, author of The Language of the Goddess
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The Nature of Greek Myths
by G. S. Kirk
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The Storm-God in the Ancient Near East (Biblical and Judaic Studies, V. 8)
by Alberto Ravinell Whitney Green
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The Archaeology of Nostalgia: How the Greeks Re-Created Their Mythical Past
by John Boardman
Julius Caesar was warned to tread carefully in the long grass at Troy lest he step on Hector's ghost: the mythical geography of Greece mirrored that of the real world. The ancient Greeks re-created a physical view of a mythological past that poets, priests, and politicians used as a paradigm for contemporary behavior. The Greeks drew upon their physical environment not just to illustrate the past but also in... (more)
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Apollo
by Fritz Graf
Fritz Graf here presents a survey of a god once thought of as the most powerful of gods, and capable of great wrath should he be crossed: Apollo the sun god. From his first attestations in Homer, through the complex question of pre-Homeric Apollo, to the opposition between Apollo and Dionysos in nineteenth and twentieth-century thinking, Graf examines Greek religion and myth to provide a full account of... (more)
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Myth and History in the Bible (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series, 362)
by Giovanni Garbini
The Old Testament, and biblical scholarship itself, distinguishes between mythical and historical. This book argues that only historical thing in the Bible is the Bible itself, a superb product of Jewish thought. What is narrated in the Bible is only myth. But this myth about Israel's past was still built with fragments of history, or rather with written traditions that were different from those expressed in the... (more)
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Mycenaean Origins of Greek Mythology (Sather Classical Lectures)
by Martin P. Nilsson
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Indo-European Poetry and Myth
by M. L. West
The Indo-Europeans, speakers of the prehistoric parent language from which most European and some Asiatic languages are descended, most probably lived on the Eurasian steppes some five or six thousand years ago. Martin West investigates their traditional mythologies, religions, and poetries, and points to elements of common heritage. In The East Face of Helicon (1997), West showed the extent to which Homeric and... (more)
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Daughter of Isis
by Lilian Nirupa
The Middle East has witnessed the birth of many civilizations. It has also been the cradle of many clashes of cultures. About 3000 years ago, the Egyptian empire extended from the Sudan to the Mediterranean Sea. But at the end of the 21st dynasty, this magnificent kingdom was threatened by very disturbing forces from both inside and outside the Kingdom. The Nubians, the Hittites, the Assyrians, the incipient... (more)
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Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World
Perseus
by Daniel Ogden
The son of Zeus, Perseus belongs in the first rank of Greek heroes. Indeed to some he was a greater hero even than Heracles. With the help of Hermes and Athena he slew the Gorgon Medusa, conquered a mighty sea monster and won the hand of the beautiful princess Andromeda. This volume tells of his enduring myth, it's rendering in art and literature, and its reception through the Roman period and up to the modern... (more)
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Lost continents;: The Atlantis theme in history, science, and literature
by L. Sprague de Camp
A leading authority examines the facts and fancies behind the Atlantis theme in history, science, and literature. Sources include the classical works from which Plato drew his proposal of the existence of an island continent, Sir Thomas More's Utopia, the Lemurian Continent theory, K. T. Frost's equation of Atlantis with Crete, and many other citations of Atlantis in both famous and lesser-known literature.... (more)
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Travelling Heroes
In the Epic Age of Homer
by Robin Lane Fox
The eighth century B.C. was the formative age of the great epics of Homer, a remote and, in some ways, mysterious era. In this groundbreaking book, Robin Lane Fox takes us into that time before history to explore questions ranging from the origins of the Greek gods to the spread of classical culture in the Mediterranean world. It is a remarkable tour de force of scholarship and creative reasoning, written with... (more)
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Routledge History of the Ancient World
Greece in the Making
1200-479 BC
by Robin Osborne
The archaic Greek world was the world in which Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were composed, in which the Doric and Ionic orders of architecture were invented, in which athletic competition first became a cultural event and in which democracy was invented. Archaic Greece is also a period of prehistory. No Greek writer ever attempted to describe or analyze the events of his own lifetime or of the immediate past... (more)
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The Gospel of Our Mother God: The Scriptures of the World's First Faith
by Golden Order
For far longer than the two millennia of Christianity; for far longer than the whole period of patriarchy combined, humanity followed a single Faith throughout the whole world. That Faith was the worship of Our Mother God, the sole Creatrix and Nourisher of the Universe, Three in One and One in Three, the Mistress of all the Angels, the Queen of Heaven, the Light, the Life, the Love of the world and the proper... (more)
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The Classical Tradition
by Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, Salvatore Settis
The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. This book features some 500 articles by a range of scholars, that investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science.

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