Return to Book Page. Preview — World Mythology by Donna Rosenberg. World Mythology is a compilation of over 50 great myths and epics. Your students will gain an appreciation and understanding of ancient and modern cultures through myths and epics from the Middle East, Greece and Rome, the Far East and Pacific islands, the British Isles, Northern Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
An introduction and historical background supplement each my World Mythology is a compilation of over 50 great myths and epics. An introduction and historical background supplement each myth. Questions at the end of each selection prompt analysis and response. Get A Copy.
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Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Apr 19, Matt rated it it was ok Shelves: classics , reads , anthologies , mythology. Around the world numerous different peoples came up with explains about the natural world and their own cultural heritage, though separated by vast distances create obvious differences there is also many similarities.
World Mythology: An Anthology of Great Myths and Epics by Donna Rosenberg brings together the stories of different cultures both well-known and hardly known together for a mass audience.
Rosenberg covers all corners of the world from such the well-known epics of Gilgamesh, The Iliad Around the world numerous different peoples came up with explains about the natural world and their own cultural heritage, though separated by vast distances create obvious differences there is also many similarities. Rosenberg also covered numerous creation and fertility myths from those same cultures or nearby neighboring cultures.
Before each piece, Rosenberg would give an introduction and historical background giving the reader better context for what they are about to read. From the standpoint of getting a large audience introduced to these myths, the book succeeds.
However, Rosenberg literally sets off alarm bells to any discerning reader when she says that she will be retelling these myths for the modern world. Sep 09, C.
I'm using this book as the core text because it gives a very broad overview of world mythology in an intelligent, inclusive, and complex fashion. I like how it breaks mythology down into specific ethnic traditions: instead of a section on "African Myths," they tell you which group, such as the Yoruba, the myth comes from; instead of "South American Myths," you get myths from the Tiahau This year we're starting out Sophomore English with a unit on Creation Mythology before turning to The Odyssey.
I like how it breaks mythology down into specific ethnic traditions: instead of a section on "African Myths," they tell you which group, such as the Yoruba, the myth comes from; instead of "South American Myths," you get myths from the Tiahaunaco, the Aztec, and the Maya.
The myths themselves retain their strangeness, their illogic, and their often disturbing violence and sexuality.
All too often anthologies of myths boil them down into bland retellings that leave out all not just the sex and violence, but the bizarre contradictions that make myths so appealing in the first place. I highly recommend this anthology - the only downside is that it is some pages, so getting enough copies for your students to take home would be expensive and getting them to lug them around difficult.
I have one class set and use lots of hand-outs. View all 4 comments. Donna Rosenberg created more than just an encyclopedia of myths from around the world in this book, she provides each myth in great detail along with some explanatory work.
This book has proven to be an invaluable resource for expanding one's reading of classical literature. She categorized the sections by regions of the world, and offers background and introduction for each story. Among the many myths or stories are Beowulf, King Arthur, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, Gilgamesh, th Donna Rosenberg created more than just an encyclopedia of myths from around the world in this book, she provides each myth in great detail along with some explanatory work.
I recommend this book as a great way to be read well in many classic epics and myths from the convenience of a single book. Over the years we have jumped around and read different myths and epics in this book, but we have mostly focused on the Greeks.
This time, however, we started with the old favorites and have just plowed through without picking and choosing. There are some very entertaining aspects of some of the unfamiliar myths. In one myth, the creator crea We bought this book to get more information about Greek Mythology following reading the D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths version of Greek Mythology for kids. In one myth, the creator creates demons by farting them out of his rear end. This produced roars of laughter and continues to produce endless jokes in our house.
Regardless of origination of the various myths, we are finding a lot of similarities. For example, there are plenty of floods that happen to annihilate entire races that don't meet the expectations of the gods. I don't know if the editor is highlighting them or we are seeing how people are more similar than we think, especially in their story telling. Some of the myths provoke a lot of discussion. One creation myth from Africa was particularly annoying.
There are two major gods in this myth, Olorun male and Olokun female. Olorun is the god of the sky and Olokun is the goddess of the sea. There is no land at this time. One of the lesser gods, Obatala, decides that it would be fun to create the earth. Following the directions of some of the other gods, he pours dirt into the water and land is formed. Essentially, he steals part of the Olokun's kingdom. Nowhere in the story does Obatala consult with Olokun about this action.
Later in the story she gets angry and creates a big flood. Still, there is no discussion abnout resolving the issue fairly or appeasement going on. In the end, Olokun relents without any discussion and Obatala is not made to pay for stealing. I don't like the messages this myth sends out, but the discussions we had were interesting.
The abridgment isn't very good in this book, but it isn't terrible either. The abridgment and translation of the Kotan Utunnai is particularly repetitive.
The editing also has a lot to be desired. Still, this book is getting us ready for the full versions. View all 3 comments. Apr 15, William rated it really liked it.
A pretty thorough compilation of various myths from all sorts of culture, reading through too quickly may even give you a bit of culture shock, not just about what's different but even more surprisingly what's similar.
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