Ancient Religions & Mythologies

One of the most recognisable but misunderstood Greek gods, Hades plays a valuable role that has not garnered much adoration. Using myth, storytelli...

ENThis three-volume book investigates the Russian transformations of one of the central concepts of Greek Christology, the self-humiliation or keno...

Arthur McKeown presents the first full-length analysis of the continuation of Buddhism in India after the thirteenth century. This study describes ...

Greek religion is filled with strange sexual artifacts - stories of mortal women's couplings with gods; rituals like the basilinna's marriage to Di...

This study of various female deities of Graeco-Roman antiquity is the first to provide evidence that primary goddesses were conceived of as virgin ...

This study of various female deities of Graeco-Roman antiquity is the first to provide evidence that primary goddesses were conceived of as virgin ...

Schöpfung ist ein zentrales Thema in mesopotamischen Texten, das in verschiedenen Textgattungen aus drei Jahrtausenden behandelt wird. Dabei zeigt ...

Eine informative Gesamtorientierung über die internationale Forschung zum antiken Mythos in den letzten hundert Jahren war schon seit langem ein wi...

Following on from the hugely popular Treasury of Folklore: Seas and Rivers and Woodlands and Forests comes Treasury of Folklore: Stars and Skies, a...

The real origin, and final outcome, of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Foretelling Jacobs Trouble: whose side are you on? unveils the overarchi...

A full-length study and new translation of the great Sanskrit poet Kalidasa's famed Meghaduta (literally The Cloud Messenger,) The Cloud of Longing...

Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. Their complexity derives not only from the impressive n...

Although the reception of the Eastern Father Gregory of Nyssa has varied over the centuries, the past few decades have witnessed a profound awakeni...

Although the reception of the Eastern Father Gregory of Nyssa has varied over the centuries, the past few decades have witnessed a profound awakeni...

A wide range of both physical and metaphysical land healing approaches to help address the environmental challenges our Earth faces and create a br...

For over four centuries the principal source of Christian European knowledge of Islam stemmed from a project sponsored by Peter the Venerable, nint...

Eden is the garden of happiness that humankind lost when Adam and Eve the first human couple, disobeyed the one true god, i.e., God, and ate the fr...

The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near...

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions is the first comprehensive single-volume reference work offering authoritative covera...

Der Tawagalawa-Brief (13. Jh. v. Chr.), stellt die bedeutendste Quelle über diplomatische Kontakte zwischen dem Großreich der Hethiter in Kleinasie...

In antiken Mythen ist der Himmel nicht nur ein kosmischer, sondern vor allem ein numinoser Raum. Was von dort kommt, besitzt herausragende Bedeutun...

Aus dem Alten Orient sind fast gar keine Quellen über gewöhnliche Ehe- und Hausfrauen überliefert, da ihre alltägliche Arbeit keiner Aufzeichnung b...

This third volume in the Material Religion in Antiquity series stems from the First International Congress on the Archaeology of Symbols (ICAS I) t...