Best of
Ancient-History
1905
Greek Thinkers: A History of Ancient Philosophy
Theodor Gomperz - 1905
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Myth in Early Northwest Europe (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)
Stephen O. Glosecki - 1905
Niles -- Theories of history in traditional plots / Craig R. Davis -- Stranded narrative: myth, metaphor, and the metrical charm / Stephen O. Glosecki -- Truth and its consequences: why Carolingianists don't speak of myth / Geoffrey Koziol -- Ritual and technology in the Iron Age: an initiation scene on Gundestrup Cauldron / Michael J. Enright -- Hearing and hunting in medieval Celtic tradition / Joseph Falaky Nagy -- Homo necans borealis: fatherhood and sacrifice in Sonatorrek / Joseph Harris -- The lay of the land in Skaldic praise poetry / Roberta Frank -- Manipulating waterfalls: mythic places in Beowulf and Grettissaga, Lawrence and Purnell / Marijane Osborn -- At the center of Beowulf / Geoffrey Russom -- God at the borders: northern myth and Anglo-Saxon heroic story / John M. Hill -- Beast men: Eofor and Wulf and the mythic significance of names in Beowulf / Gale R. Owen-Crocker -- Children of darkness: Arminius/Siegfried in Germany / Christina Lee -- Imagined cathedrals: retelling myth in the twentieth century / Tom Shippey.