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Mythology

Mythology

Greek Mythology

Books to investigate:
Use the card catalog and search with keywords. Here are a couple of books that might help you.

291.1 WIL The Illustrated Dictionary of Mythology

291 BUL Bulfinch's Mythology

R 291.2 LEE Encyclopedia of Creation Myths

291 PAT Patrick, Richard. All color book of Greek mythology

292 COL Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles

292 SWI Switzer, Ellen Eichenwald. Greek myths : gods, heroes, and monsters :their sources, their stories, and their meanings.

R 291 PIN Pinsent, John. Greek Mythology

R 292 AVE The New Century handbook of Greek mythology and legend

Websites:

Greek Mythology
Links to the Olympian Gods, Titans, other Gods, myths, creatures, figures, places, and heroes. This site is very well organized.

Bulfinch's Mythology
Full Text of the original 1855 version by Thomas Bulfinch.

Encyclopedia Mythica
Use the search engine to locate comprehensive information on Greek Mythology.

Greek Mythology: from the Iliad to the fall of the last tyrant
Includes the origins of greek mythology, greek names vs. roman names, the immortals, and more.

Greek Mythology
Follow this link to find information on the Goddesses and Gods of Olympus.

Roman Mythology

Books to investigate:
Use the card catalog and search with keywords. Here are a couple of books that might help you.

291.1 The Illustrated Dictionary of Mythology
WIL

291 Bulfinch's Mythology
BUL

291 All Color Book of Roman Mythology
CRO

R The Dictionary of Classical Mythology
292
GRI

R Encyclopedia of Creation Myths
291.2
LEE

R Roman Mythology
291
PER

Websites:

Encyclopedia Mythica: Image Gallery
Locate an image from Bulfinch's Mythology of Gods and Goddesses

Encyclopedia Mythica: Roman Mythology
Gives a short overview of the dieties and their Greek counterparts.

Bulfinch's Mythology
Full Text of the original 1855 version by Thomas Bulfinch.

Greek and Roman Mythology
From Infoplease, this lists the names of both Greek and Roman dieties.

Germanic Mythology

Germanic Myths, Legends, and Sagas
Includes Norse, Viking, Danish, Swedish German and Finish Mythology.

Russian Folktales

Russian Crafts
Several short folktales from Russia are also here.

World Mythology

	Creation Myths	Rites of Passage Birth/Life/Death	Natural & Moral World	Other
Chinese	A Chinese Creation and Flood Myth From the Miao People Creation Myths 3 -- Chinese	Shen I Shou-Xing	Ten suns of heaven The Legend of the Kitchen God :: Xiao Nian	Chinese Mythology Chinese Mythology from Encyclopedia Mythica
Egyptian	Egyptian Creation Myths Creation Myths of Ancient Egypt	Re (Ra) (birth) Osiris (death)	The Story of Isis and Osiris How Seth murdered Osiris and how Horus avenged his father. The Seven Years' Famine The story of how Khnemu saved Egypt from the ravages of a seven year long famine. The Peasant and the Workman The 12th Dynasty tale of a peasant on a quest for justice	Egyptian Myths Ancient Egypt, the Mythology Egyptian Mythology
Greek	Greek Creation Myth Greek creation myths	Typhon Orpheus Orpheus and Eurydice Persephone and Demeter Reunited Hades	Midas Icarus Deucalion	Greek Mythology Greek Mythology Greek Mythology for Educators
Roman	Romulus and Remus Romulus and Remus			The (major) Roman deities and their Greek counterparts.
Norse	Norse Creation Myth The Norse Creation Myth	Hurstwik Norse Mythology: Idun The Death of Balder Asgard and Valhalla Ragnarok, the end of the world	Loki's Punishment HOW FREY WON GERDA, THE GIANT MAIDEN, AND HOW HE LOST HIS MAGIC SWORD Blood Flood THE STORY OF SIGURD THE NIBELUNGENLIED	Germanic Myths, Legends, and Sagas
American Indian	Western Coast Hopi, Huron and Inuit Creation Stories THE MIWOK CREATION MYTH _________________ Plains A Dakota Legend of Creation The Navajo Creation Story LAKOTA CREATION MYTH Creation Myths 3 -- Apache Creation Myths 3 - Comanche ________________ Eastern Coast Iroquois THE CHEROKEE CREATION MYTH	Western Coast Salish--Pheasant Goes to the Land of the Dead Go to page 128 from the left column Salish-The Girl Who Married the Sea Being Go to page 90 from the left column ________________________ Plains Bad Wife (Blackfoot) Heavy Collar and the Ghost Woman _____________________ Eastern Coast The Woman's Scalp Medicine Bundle The Legend of The Cedar Tree (Cherokee)	THUNDER STORIES see page 106 Legend of Two Mountains Wolf and Dog/Sti-Kieo and Skobie ________________ How the Buffalo Were Released on Earth (Commanche) Unktahe and the Thunder Bird _______________________ Why the Possum's Tail is Bare (Cherokee) Why Rabbit Has A Short Tail (Cherokee) Honeyed Words Can't Sweeten Evil (Algonquian) Cherokee Bear Legend	Indigenous People's Literature Legends of the Blackfoot Indians
King Arthur	Summaries and Commentaries for Arthurian Legends - Commentary on the Arthurian Legends	The Age of Chivalry (Bulfinch) The Code of Chivalry	Arthurian Resources
Gilgamesh	Gilgamesh Summary The Epic of Gilgamesh Gilgamesh	Epic of Gilgamesh

updated 9/2/11

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