Mythology

Russian Folktales

World Mythology  

Greek Mythology

Roman Mythology

Germanic 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.
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Bulfinch's Mythology
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Encyclopedia Mythica
Use the search engine to locate comprehensive information on Greek Mythology.
[click here for more]

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.
[click here for more]

Greek Mythology
Follow this link to find information on the Goddesses and Gods of Olympus.
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Greek Mythology
These links give brief information on Greek Mythology, often with a graphic representation.
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Greek Mythology
Subjects such as The Gods, The Heroes, Creatures, Stories and family trees are given here.
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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:

Roman Gods/Goddesses
Alphabetical list of Roman Gods and Goddesses with a short description of each.
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Encyclopedia Mythica: Image Gallery
Locate an image from Bulfinch's Mythology of Gods and Goddesses
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Encyclopedia Mythica: Roman Mythology
Gives a short overview of the dieties and their Greek counterparts.
[click here for more]

Bulfinch's Mythology
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Greek and Roman Mythology
From Infoplease, this lists the names of both Greek and Roman dieties.
[click here for more]

Classical Mythology Online
Locate here the many myths from Romans and find activities, additional weblinks and commentary.
[click here for more]

Dictionary of Mythology
[click here for more]

Germanic Mythology

Germanic Myths, Legends, and Sagas
Includes Norse, Viking, Danish, Swedish German and Finish Mythology
.
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Norse Mythology
Introduces Norse Mythology covering: Mythic Figures, Creation, Cosmology, Ragnarok, Valkyrie, Berserker, Norns, Runes, Volva, The Eddas and has a Chronology
.
[click here for more]

 

Russian Folktales

Russian Folktales
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Russian Crafts
Several short folktales from Russia are also here.
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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

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Plains

A Dakota Legend of Creation

The Navajo Creation Story

LAKOTA CREATION MYTH

Creation Myths 3 -- Apache

Creation Myths 3 - Comanche

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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

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Plains

Bad Wife (Blackfoot)

Heavy Collar and the Ghost Woman

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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

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How the Buffalo Were Released on Earth (Commanche)

Unktahe and the Thunder Bird

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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 5/5/08