LibGuides: Religious Studies: Ancient Religions

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Myth as Lens for Cultural Critiques, Commentary:

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?"

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The Aztec Sun Stone (also known as the Calendar Stone) is a representation of the five eras of the sun from Aztec mythology. The stone was part of the architectural complex of the Temple Mayor of Tenochtitlán and dates to c. 1427 CE. https://t.co/cJRNjPklW9 pic.twitter.com/FoedphaQDU
— World History Encyclopedia (@whencyclopedia) October 7, 2021

Can't emphasise enough how exciting this is: New method finds precise date for Viking presence at L'Anse aux Meadows - AD 1021, exactly a millenium ago. Previous 14C dates have been very imprecise, but a new paper uses specific spikes.... https://t.co/Z0zbDlw8ZQ
— Dr Cat Jarman FSA💀 (@CatJarman) October 20, 2021

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“Tell Me about a Complicated Man”: A Homer Reading List
JSTOR guide.
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