Religious Studies: Ancient Religions

• Twilight of the Godlings by Francis Young
• Ancient Greek Religion by Jon D. Mikalson
• Art and myth of the ancient Maya
• Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia by Jean Bottéro; Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translator)
• Return to Aztlan by Danna A. Levin Rojo
• The Four Heavens by David Stuart

• CORN AND CACAO: Twins of Sun and Shadow [Oklahoma Humanities]

  Page 15 of this issue: "Maya thought on reverence and sustenance"
• 'Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman review – nice dramatic narratives, but where’s the nihilism?' by Ursula K. Le Guin [The Guardian]

  Le Guin reviews Neil Gaiman's retellings. "I felt sometimes that this vigorous, robust, good-natured version of the mythos gives us everything but the very essence of it, the heart."
• "How a Woman Becomes a Lake" by Jia Tolentino [The New Yorker]

  Cultural commentary drawing off of Ovid's Metamorphosis.
• "The First Woman to Translate the ‘Odyssey’ Into English" by Wyatt Mason [The New York Times Magazine]

  "The classicist Emily Wilson has given Homer’s epic a radically contemporary voice."
• "Taking Flight, The Throne, Or The Spellbook: The Ways We Process Anxiety Over Women In Power" by Mark Riechers [To The Best of Our Knowledge]

  A discussion on mythical women with three authors.
• The Whitening Thief [Eidolon]

  "Latent White Supremacy in Percy Jackson."
• "The Percy Jackson Problem" by Rebecca Mead [The New Yorker]

  "What if the strenuous accessibility of “Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods” proves so alluring to young readers that it seduces them in the opposite direction from that which Gaiman’s words presuppose—away from an engagement with more immediately difficult incarnations of the classics, Greek and otherwise?"

• “Tell Me about a Complicated Man”: A Homer Reading List

  JSTOR guide.
• Gale in Context search results for "Mythology"

  Contains results for various sources types, from articles to video.

• In Praise of Polytheism by Maurizio Bettini; Douglas Grant Heise (Translator)

  Publication Date: 2023-01-31
• The Buried Book by David Damrosch
• Fifth sun : a new history of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend
• Ancestor of the West by Jean Bottéro; Clarisse Herrenschmidt; Jean-Pierre Vernant; Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translator)
• The Norse myths : a guide to the gods and heroes by Carolyne Larrington
• Maya History and Religion by J. Eric S. Thompson; David M. Pendergast (Foreword by); Elizabeth Graham (Foreword by)
• The ancient gods speak : a guide to Egyptian religion by Donald B. Redford (Editor)
• Dictionary of Celtic Religion and Culture by Bernhard Maier; Cyril Edwards (Translator)
• Folklore, Myths, and Legends by Donna Rosenberg; Glencoe McGraw-Hill Staff
• Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch; Alberto Manguel (Foreword by)
• Chocolate : pathway to the gods by Meredith L. Dreiss; Sharon Edgar Greenhill