Centre for Myth Studies on Social Media
- Follow Essex Myth on WordPress.com
Accessibility statement
Categories
- conference (21)
- Guest Blogging (6)
- Performance (4)
- Publications (4)
- Reading Group (211)
- round table discussion (6)
- Seminar (11)
University of Essex Myth pages
External links
- Acad-Myth (e-mail discussion list)
- Amaltea – Journal of Myth Criticism
- Classical Reception Studies Network
- International Association for Comparative Mythology
- Nouvelle Mythologie Comparée / New Comparative Mythology
- Paganism and Wellbeing
- Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture
- University of Aberdeen Centre for the Study of Myth
-
Recent Posts
Archives
Tags
- Aeschylus
- afterlives
- animals & mythical creatures
- apocalypse
- Ben Pestell
- C. G. Jung
- call for papers
- Christianity
- conference
- cosmology
- creation myths
- Dante Alighieri
- Demeter
- depth psychology
- Dionysus
- Eirini Apanomeritaki
- epic poetry
- film & video
- First Nations
- Freud
- Greek mythology
- Greek Tragedy
- Hesiod
- Homer
- Homeric Hymn
- Japanese mythology
- katabasis
- Keats
- King James Bible
- Leon Burnett
- Louise Glück
- Margaret Atwood
- Mesopotamia
- metamorphosis
- modern/contemporary literature
- music
- myth & emotion
- myth and childhood
- Native american mythology
- Norse mythology
- Odyssey
- open seminar
- Orpheus
- Orpheus Project
- Osip Mandel’shtam
- Ovid
- Pan
- performance event
- Persephone
- Pietra Palazzolo
- Plato
- Plutarch
- poetry
- Reports
- Roderick Main
- Roman mythology
- round table discussion
- sacrifice
- Saul Andreetti
- Tennyson
- Translating Myth
- trees
- underworld
- Universidad Complutense Madrid
- William Blake
Twitter
My TweetsBlog Stats
- 58,496 hits
Meta
Recent Comments
Sian Lloyd on Myth Reading Group 22 March: H… ὑποκείμενον on Myth Reading Group 22 March: H… Luis Alberto on Myth Reading Group 8 March: Ph… ὑποκείμενον on Myth Reading Group 8 March: Ph… ὑποκείμενον on Myth Reading Group 22 February… ὑποκείμενον on Myth Reading Group 8 February:… ὑποκείμενον on Myth Reading Group 8 February:… Stephanie on Myth Reading Group 8 February:…
Tag Archives: Plato
Thursday 29 October: King Minos from Antiquity to the Present
This week Brittany Kuhn introduces a discussion of King Minos’s transformations from antiquity to the present. As the judge of the underworld, King Minos first appeared in a short passage of Homer’s The Odyssey. Throughout literary history, however, he has … Continue reading
Thursday 5 December: Is Pan Dead?
Myth Reading Group Thursday 5 December 2013 1 – 2 p.m. Room 5N.7.23 The texts: Pan 1 (extracts from Plutarch, Nietzsche, Bloch & Pound compiled by Ben Pestell) Pan 2 (extracts from Turgenev & Plato compiled by Leon Burnett)
Posted in Reading Group
Tagged Ben Pestell, Ernst Bloch, Ezra Pound, Leon Burnett, Nietzsche, Pan, Plato, Plutarch, poetry, Turgenev
Leave a comment
Thursday 16 May: Prometheus
Myth Reading Group Thursday 16 May 2013 5 – 6 p.m. Room 5A.118 The text: Prometheus (Plato and Kafka) Supplementary: Kafka’s text in German