This bibliography contains a selection of works of importance to the student of mythology. It includes among others books used in the preparation of this volume. It is not intended as a complete list of works on the subject.
Aarne, A. A. Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography. Translated and enlarged by Stith Thompson. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1961. Abrahams, Roger D. African Folktales. New York; Pantheon, 1983.
Alexander, H. B. Latin-American Mythology. Boston: Marshall & Jones Company,
1920. '
Andersen, Johannes C. Myths and Legends of the Polynesians. Rutland and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1969.
Apollodorus. The Library. Translated by James G. Frazer. London: W. Heinemann,
1921.
Apollonius of Rhodes. The Voyage of the Argo. Translated by E. V. Rieu. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1959.
Ballou, R. O., ed. The Bible of the World. New York: The Viking Press, 1939.
Available in paperback as The Viking Portable World Bible, abridged.
Bastian, Adolf. Ethnische Elementargedanken in der Lehre vom Menschen, Berlin: F. Dummler, 1895.
Biallas, Leonard J. Myths: Gods, Heroes, and Saviors. Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications.
Bierlein, J. F. Parallel Myths. New York: Ballantine, 1994.
Boas, Franz. Race, Language, and Culture: [1940], New York: Free Press, 1966. Boer, Charles, trans. The Homeric Hymns. Chicago: Swallow Press, 1970.
Bolen, Jean Shinoda. Goddesses in Everywoman. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1984.
--. Gods in Everyman. New York: Harper and Row, 1989.
Bonnefoy, Yves. Asian Mythologies (1981). Translated by Wendy Doniger.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Branston, Brian. Gods of the North. New York: Vanguard Press, 1955.
Brown, Norman O. Love’s Body. New York: Random House, 1966.
Budge, Wallis. Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection. 2 vols. [1911] New York: Dover, 1973.
Bulfinch, Thomas. Bulfinch’s Mythology. 2 vols. New York: Mentor Books, 1962. Campbell, Joseph. The Way of the Animal Powers. London: Summerfield Press, 1983.
-. The Mythic Image. Princeton: Bollingen Series C, 1974.
--. Myths to Live By. New York; Viking Press, 1972.
-. The Masks of God. 4 vols. New York: Viking Compass Books, 1970.
-. The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological
Dimension. New York: Viking, 1969.
-. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. [19.S6] Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1968.
Campbell, Joseph with Bill Moyers. The Power of Myth. New York: Doubleday, 1988.
Carpenter, Rhys. Folk Tale, Fiction, and Saga in the Homeric Epics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962.
Cassirer, Ernst. Language and Myth. Translated by Susanne Langer. New York: Dover, 1946.
Chase, Richard. Quest for Myth. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1949.
Coffin, T. R, ed. Indian Tales of North America. Philadelphia: American Folklore Society, 1961.
Colum, Padraic. Myths of the World (Orpheus). New York: Universal Library, 1972.
Coomaraswamy, Ananda. Buddha and the Gospel of Buddhism. London: G. G. Harrap, 1928.
-. The Dance of Shiva. [1918J, New York: Noonday, 1957.
-. Hinduism and Buddhism. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1971.
Coomaraswamy, Ananda, and Nivedita, Sister. Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists [1914] New York: Dover, 1967.
Crossley-Holland. The Norse Myths. New York: Pantheon, 1980.
Cushing, F. H. Outlines ofZuhi Creation Myths. Washington, D. C.: Thirteenth Annual Report, Bureau of Ethnology, 1896, pp. 325-447.
Dante. Divine Comedy.
-. Vita Nuova. Translated by R. W. Emerson. Chapel Hill, N. C.: Univ. of
N. C. Press, 1960.
De Santillana, Giorgio, and von Dechend, Hertha. Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time. Boston: David Godine, 1977 (orig. 1969).
De Voragine, Jacohus. The Golden Legend. London: Longmans, Green Sc Co., 1941.
Durkheim, Emile. The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. Translated by Joseph Ward Swain. London: Allen Sc Urwin, 1915.
Eggeling, Julius. Sacred Books of the East. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1882.
Eisenberg, Diane, et. al. Transformations of Myth Through Time: An Anthology of Readings. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.
Eliade, Mircea. Birth and Rebirth. Translated by W. R. Trask. New York, 1958.
-. Rites and Symbols of Initiation. New York, 1958.
-. Gods, Goddesses, and Myths of Creation. New York: Harper Sc Row,
1974.
-. Mephistopheles and the Androgyne: Studies in Religious Myth and
Symbol. Translated by J. M. Cohen. New York: Sheed Sc Ward, 1965.
, Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries. Translated by P. Mairet. New York:
Harper 6c Row, 1960.
-. Myth and Reality. New York: Harper Sc Row, 1963.
-. The Myth of the FJernal Return. Translated by W. R. Trask. New York:
Pantheon, 1954.
Eliot, T. S. “The Waste Land.
Erdoes, Richard and Alfonso Ortiz. American Indian Myths and Legends. New York: Pantheon, 1984.
Euripides. The Bacchae. Translated by F. L. Lucas, Greek Tragedy and Comedy. New York: Viking Compass Books, 1968.
Farnell, Lewis R. Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality. Oxford, 1970.
Fiske, John. Myths and Myth-Makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885.
Frazer, Sir James. The Golden Bough. 12 vols. London, 1907-1915.
--. The New Golden Bough. 1 vol. Edited by Theodor H. Caster. New York:
Mentor Books, 1964.
Freud, Sigmund. Totem and Taboo. Translated by A. A. Brill. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1918.
Frobenius, Leo. African Genesis. New York: Stackpole & Sons, 1938.
Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism. New York: Atheneurn, 1970.
---. Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology. New York: Harbinger
Books, 1963.
Caster, Theodor. “Heroes,” in The Encyclopedia of Religion. Edited by Mirceas Eliade. New York: Macmillan, 1986, VI, 302-305.
--. The Oldest Stories in the World. New York: Viking, 1952.
--. Thespis: Ritual, Myth, and Drama in the Ancient Near East [1950],
Carden City: N. Y.: Doubleday [Anchor], 1961.
Cinzberg, Louis. The Legends of the Jews. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1913.
Coethe. Faust.
Graves, Robert. The Greek Myths. 2 vols. Baltimore: Penguin, 1955.
Gray, Louis, ed. The Mythology of All Races, 13 vols. Boston: Marshall Jones Co., 1916-1932.
Grimal, Pierre, ed. Larousse World Mythology. New York: Hamlyn, 1973.
Grinnell, George B. Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1962.
Hamilton, Edith. Mythology. New York: Mentor Books. 1969.
Handy, E. S. Craighill. Polynesian Religion. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 34,1927.
Harrison, Jane. Epilegomena to the Study of Greek Religion and Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion. Hyde Park, N. Y.: University Books, 1962.
--. Mythology. New York: Harbinger Books, 1963.
Henderson, Joseph L., and Oakes, Maud. The Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection. New York: Collier Books, 1971.
Holy Bible. King James version.
Homer. Iliad. Translated by Richard Lattimore. Chicago: Phoenix Books, 1961.
--. The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by T. E. Shaw (T. E. Lawrence). New
York: Oxford University Press, 1932.
-. The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Garden City,
N. Y.: Doubleday (Anchor), 1963.
Hongi, Hare, “A Maori Cosmogony.” Journal of the Polynesian Society 16,
(1907): 113-114.
Hultkrantz, Ake. The North American Indian Orpheus Tradition. Stockholm: Statens Etnogra Fiska Museum, 1957.
Joyce, James. Ulysses.
Jung, Carl Gustav. Answer to Job: The Problem of Evil: Its Psychological and Religious Origins. Translated by R. R C. Hull. Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1960.
-. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. Princeton; Bollingen
Series, 1959.
Richard and Clara Winston. New York: Vintage Books, 1961.
-. Modern Man in Search of a Soul. London; K. Paul, Trench & Truoner,
-. Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Edited by Aniela Jaffe, translated by
1933.
---—. Symbols of Transformation. Princeton: Bollingen Series, 1956.
Jung, Carl Gustav, and Kerenyi, C. Introduction to a Science of Mythology: The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries ofElensis. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951.
Jung, Carl Gustav, von Franz M.-L., et al. Man and His Symbols. New York; Dell. 1968.
Kazantzakis, Nikos. The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel. Translated by Kimon Friar. New York: Simon &c Schuster, 1958.
Kerenyi, C. The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson, 1951.
-. The Heroes of the Greeks. New York: Grove Press, 1960.
Kramer, S. N., ed. Mythologies of the Ancient World. Garden City, N. Y.:
Doubleday (Anchor), 1961.
-. Sumerian Mythology. New York: Torchbook, 1961.
Kroeber, A. L. Indian Myths of South Central California. University of California Publications, American Archeology and Ethnology (19061907): 229-231.
Leach, Maria. The Beginning. New York: Funk & Wagnails, 1956.
Leeming, David A. The World of Myth: New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
-. Mythology. New York: Newsweek Books World of Culture Series, 1976.
Leeming, David A. with Margaret A. Leeming. A Dictionary of Creation Myths, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Leeming, David A. and Jake Page. God: Myths of the Male Divine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
-. Goddess: Myths of the Female Divine. New York: Oxford University Press,
1994.
Levi-Strauss, Claude. “The Structural Study of Myth.” In Myth: A Symposium.
Edited by A. Sebeok. Bloomington, Ind.: Univ. of Indiana Press, 1958.
Lord, George de Forest. Trials of the Self: Heroic Ordeals in the Epic Tradition. Hamden, CT, 1983.
Malinowski, Bronislaw. “Myth in Primitive Psychology.” In Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays. Edited by Robert Redfield. Boston; Beacon Press, 1948. Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus. New York: New American Library, 1969. Mooney, James. Myths of the Cherokee. [1900] New York; Johnson Reprint Corp. 1970.
Morford, Mark P. O. and Robert J. Lenardon. Classical Mythology (1971). New York: Longman, 1985.
Morgan, Edwin, trans. Beowulf. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. Muir, Sir William. The Life of Mohammad. Revised by T. H. Weir. [1923], New York: AMS Press, 1975.
Murdock, Maureen. The Heroine’s Journey. Boston and London: Shambala, 1990.
Narasimhan, C. V., translator. The Mahabharata. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965.
Neumann, Erich. The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype. Translated by Ralph Manheim. New York; Pantheon Books, 1955.
-. Mystical Man. Eranos-Jahrbuch XVI, 1959.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Philosophy of Nietzsche. New York: Modern Library, 1927.
Nivedita, Sister. See Coomaraswamy.
Oakes, Maud. See Henderson.
O’Flatery, Wendy Doniger, ed. Hindu Myths. Middlesex, UK; Penguin, 1975.
Oldfather, C. H., translator. Diodorus of Sicily. London: W. Heinemann, 1933-1967.
Otto, Walter F. Dionysus. Myth and Cult. Translated by R. B. Palmer. Bloomington: Univ. of Indian Press, 1965.
Ovid. Metamorphoses. Translated by Horace Gregory. New York: Mentor Books. 1958.
Pearson, Carol S. Awakening the Heroes Within. San Francisco; Harper, 1991.
-. The Hero Within. San Francisco; Harper and Row, 1986.
Piankoff, Alexandre. The Shrines of Tut-ankh-amon. New York; Pantheon Books, 1955.
Puhvel, Jaan. Comparative Mythology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
Quinn, E. C. The Quest of Seth: For the Oil and Life. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1962.
Radin, Paul. The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology. [1956], New York: Greenwood Press, 1969.
Radin, Paul, and Sweeney, James J. African Folktales and Sculpture. New York: Bollingen Series 32, 1952.
Raglan, Lord Fitzroy. The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth, and Drama. [1937], New York: Vintage Books, 1956.
Rank, Otto. The Myth of the Birth of the Hero and Other Writings. Edited by Philip Freund. New York: Vintage Books, 1959.
Roheim, Geza. The Origin and Function of Culture. New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Monographs, 1943.
Rosenberg, Donna. World Mythology. Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Co., 1986.
Rothenberg, Jerome ed. Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania. Garden City, N. Y.: Anchor Books, 1969.
Sahagun, Fray Bernardino de. Florentine Codex. Translated by A. J. O. Anderson. Santa Fe: School of American Research, 1951.
Schoolcraft, H. R. The Myth of Hiawatha and Other Oral Legends Mythologic and Allegoric of the North American Indians. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1856.
Serrano, Miguel, C. G. Jung and Hermann Hesse: A Record of Two Friendships. Translated by Frank MacShane. New York; Schocken Books, 1968.
Smith, W. Ramsay. Myth and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals. London: George G. Harrap, 1970 (reprint).
Thurston, Herbert and Attwater, Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints, vol. 2.
Sophocles. Oedipus at Colonus. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Sophocles 1. Edited by David Grene and Richard Lattimore. New York: Washington Square Press, 1967.
Sproul, Barbara. Primal Myths: Creation Myths Around the World. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1991.
Thompson, Stith. The Folktale. New York: The Dryden Press, 1946.
-. Motif-Index of Folk Literature. Copenhagen and Bloomington: Indiana
Univ. Press, 1955-1958.
-. Tales of the North American Indians. Bloomington: Midland Books, 1971.
New York: P. J. Kennedy and Sons, 1963.
Tripp, Edward, ed. Crowell’s Handbook of Classical Mythology. New York: Crowed, 1970.
Turville-Petre, E. O. G. Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964.
Tylor, E. B. Primitive Culture. 2 vols. London: J. Murray, 1871.
Underhill, Evelyn. Mysticism: A. Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness. [1911], London: Methuen & Co., 1949.
Vermaseren, M. J. Mithras, the Secret God. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1963. Vickery, John B., ed. Myth and Literature: Contemporary Theory and Practice.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Bison Books, 1969.
Vickery, John B., and Sellery, J. M., eds. The Scapegoat: Ritual and Literature.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972.
Virgil. Aeneid.
Wagner, W. Romances and Epics of Our Northern Ancestors: Norse, Celt, and Teuton. Translated by W. S. W. Anson. London: Norroena Society, 1907.
Warner, Rex. The Stories of the Greeks. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967. Warren, Henry Clarke, translator. Buddhism in Translations. Cambridge, Mass., 1896.
Watts, Alan. Myth and Ritual in Christianity. Boston: Beacon Paperback, 1968. Weston, Jessie L. From Ritual to Romance: An Account of the Holy Grail from Ancient Ritual to Christian Symbol. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday (Anchor), 1957.
-. trans. Sir Gawain at the Grail Castle, London: D. Nutt, 1903.
Yeats, William Butler. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats. New York: Macmillan, 1957.
Zimmer, Heinrich. The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul’s Conquest of Evil. New York: Pantheon Books, 1948.
World History
