This book is a sustained focus of on those original human acts that gave us the gods, the human psyche, and the stories about them.

This volume looks at the wide variety of epics produced over the last century--from the silent spectacles of D. W. Griffith and biblical melodramas of Cecil B. DeMille to the historical dramas of David Lean and rollercoaster thrillers of ...

The nature/nurture controversy, sometimes known as the evolution/environment controversy, seems to have trickled down into the information systems of the vernacular world as an unfortunate rift between duelling scholarly camps.

This study uncovers Pythagorean epistemology as the intertext of Ovid's Metamorphoses. It offers a new interpretation of this classic and its author.