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Religious Studies: Ancient Religions

This guide will help you in researching the world's major religions.

This tab focuses on religions viewed now as myth, religions no longer practiced, or foundations of neopagan belief systems such as: ancient religions of the Near East, ancient religions of Greece and Rome, or ancient religions of Egypt and Mesopotamia from all over the globe.

Recommended Books

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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View other Crash Course Mythology videos here.

Other

“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.

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