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Don't know much about mythology

Employing the popular "Don't know much about" style, with its familiar question-and-answer format, "Don't Know Much About Mythology" will explore the myths of the world, their impact on history, and their continuing role in our lives. It will offer listeners a wide-ranging, comprehensive, entertaining and listenable survey of the great myths of world civilizations, how they came to be, what they meant to the people who created them, how they influenced society, literature and art through history, and how they still speak to us today. Mythology is alive today in our art, literature, theatre, dreams, psychology--and certainly our language.

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  • "Employing the popular "Don't know much about" style, with its familiar question-and-answer format, "Don't Know Much About Mythology" will explore the myths of the world, their impact on history, and their continuing role in our lives. It will offer listeners a wide-ranging, comprehensive, entertaining and listenable survey of the great myths of world civilizations, how they came to be, what they meant to the people who created them, how they influenced society, literature and art through history, and how they still speak to us today. Mythology is alive today in our art, literature, theatre, dreams, psychology--and certainly our language."@en
  • "Introduces and explores the great myths of the world, their impact on history, and their continuing role in our lives. Includes the ancient myths of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome, Northern Europe, India, China, Japan, Africa, the Americas and the Pacific Islands."@en
  • "Presents stories of the mythological world, recounting ancient tales of gods and heroes and how they have shaped modern culture, language, and religion."@en
  • "In his irreverent and popular question-and-answer style, Davis introduces and explains the great myths of the world, as well as the works of literature that have made them famous. In a single volume, he tackles Mesopotamia's Gilgamesh, the first hero in world mythology; Achilles and the Trojan War; Stonehenge and the Druids; Thor, the Nordic god of thunder; Chinese oracle bones; the use of peyote in ancient Native American rites; and the dramatic life and times of the man who would be Buddha."
  • "In his irreverent and popular question-and-answer style, Davis introduces and explains the great myths of the world. Ever familiar and instructive, Davis shows why the ancient tales of gods and heroes continue to speak to us today, in our movies, art, language, and music.--"@en
  • "With humor and wit, the tales of the great myths of the world are explained as is their relevance to current movies, art, language, and music."@en
  • "Where do we come from? Why do stars shine and the seasons change? What is evil? Since the beginning of time, people have answered such questions by crafting imaginative stories that have served as religion, science, philosophy, and popular literature. In [this book, the author] introduces and explains the great myths of the world, as well as the works of literature that have made them famous. He tackles Mesopotamia's Gilgamesh, the first hero in world mythology; Achilles and the Trojan War; Stonehenge and the Druids; Thor, the Nordic god of thunder; Chinese oracle bones; the use of peyote in ancient Native American rites; and the dramatic life and times of the man who would be Buddha. Ever familiar and instructive, [he also] shows why the ancient tales of gods and heroes--from Mount Olympus to Machu Picchu, from ancient Rome to the icy land of the Norse--continue to speak to us today, in our movies, art, language, and music."

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  • "Audiobooks, Nonfiction"@en

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  • "Don't know much about mythology"@en
  • "Don't Know Much About Mythology Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History But Never Learned"@en
  • "Don't know much about mythology [everything you need to know about the greatest stories in human history but never learned]"
  • "Don't know much about mythology [everything you need to know about the greatest stories in human history but never learned]"@en
  • "Don't know much about mythology everything you need to know about the greatest stories in human history but never learned"
  • "Don't know much about mythology everything you need to know about the greatest stories in human history but never learned"@en

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