The Mabinogi, and Other Medieval Welsh Tales
by Patrick K. Ford (Editor)

Ford is one of the most eminent Celtic scholars of our day, and any contribution he makes to the field of Welsh criticism and letters is welcome and is bound to be significant. The present translation is no exception.

Hero with a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell

the Hero's journey, -- the call to adventure, refusing the call, finding a mentor, encountering threshold guardians, crossing the threshold, facing the worst evil, winning the elixir..

The Golden Ass : The Transformations of Lucius
by Lucius Apuleius, Graves, Robert Graves (Translator)

In the ancient world of Thessaly, a young adventurer betrays a priestess of the White Goddess and is turned into an ass. How he resumes human form makes up this tale abounding in lusty incident and bawdy wit. In all of literature, there are few books with the vitality of THE GOLDEN ASS. Here is Robert Graves's masterful translation from the original Latin. ~amazon

Ladies of the Lake
by Caitlin Matthews, John Matthews (Contributor), Marion Zimmer Bradley (Foreword)

Ladies of the Lake portrays nine of the women in Arthurian legend. These are the Ladies of the Lake in whom the ancient Celtic Goddess is fragmented and reflected.

The Mabinogion
by Lady Charlotte E. Guest (Translator),

Composed in a golden age of Celtic storytelling in the 13th century or earlier, this collection of 12 Welsh prose tales is a masterpiece of European literature.

Mythology
by Edith Hamilton

A new trade paperback edition of Edith Hamilton's world-renowned classic--a book that has enthralled and delighted generations of readers with its timeless tales of gods and heroes. 50 line drawings. ~amazon

D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths ( children's book)
by Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire

The D'Aulaires' illustrations have a memorable quality: once pored over, they will never leave the minds of the viewer. Decades later, the name Gaea will still evoke the soft green picture of lovely Mother Earth, her body hills and valleys and her eyes blue lakes reflecting the stars of her husband, Uranus the sky. No child is too young to appreciate the myths that have built the foundation for much of the world's art and literature over the centuries. This introduction to mythology is a treasure. (Ages 10 to adult) --Emilie Coulter

Women Who Run With the Wolves : Myths & Stories About the Wild Woman Archetype
by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The author is a Jungian analyst and poet. All of her works are phenomenal. If you love fairy tales, the dark brambely kind, read this book. I once heard her speak in Berkeley and before the event I tried to pick her out of the crowd. I zeroed in on a thin stately woman in a conservative charcoal suit (Jungian analysts I thought must be stodgey.) Boy was I wrong. Up walks the Venus of Willendorf wearing a hot pink floral dress with big bright roses attached to her shoes.~Salome

A Mythic Life : Learning to Live Our Greater Story
by Jean Houston

Mythology has helped humans understand the past: now psychologist Houston tells how mythic elements in modern living can result in patterns repeated time and again in modern lives, crossing cultural and historical barriers to reassert themselves. Plenty of case history examples pinpoint instances of these elements and their effects on both individuals and societies. ~amazon

The Tain
Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge by Thomas Kinsella (Translator), Louis Le Brocquy (Illustrator)

The Tain Bo Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's nearest approach to a great epic. It tells the story of a giant cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, queen and king of Connacht, and their allies, seeking to carry off the great Brown Bull of Cuailnge. The hero of the tale is Cuchulainn, the Hound of Ulster, who single-handedly resists the invasion, whils Ulster's warriors lie sick. ~amazon