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Kaplan, Robert D., Balkan Ghosts, A Journey Through History. Like an old photograph found in a dusty attic, the Balkan Peninsula is once again back at center stage. Here is where twentieth century history began--with the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo--and where it will likely end. Yet few of us truly comprehend the nature of the blood feuds that have recently been rekindled. In the tradition of Rebecca West and Paul Theroux, veteran reporter, travel writer, and essayist Robert D. Kaplan offers an eloquent and incisive exploration into the heart of what he calls "history's cauldron."

Karpodini-Dimitriadi, E., The Peloponnese, A traveler's guide to the sites, monuments and history. The Peloponnese is the southernmost extremity of the Balkan Peninsula. Itself a peninsula, the largest in Greece, it is linked to the Greek mainland by a narrow neck of land, the Isthmus of Corinth, only 5 kms wide. The terrain is mountainous, leveling out to fertile alluvial plains at the head of inlets and along the coast. The morphology of the area and its favorable geographical situation have played an important part of in the history of the Peloponnese, some were related to each other, others were of different origin. In both cases their customs and culture were varied, and intermingled in this area to produce a new civilization.

Kerenyi, C., Asklepios, Archetypal Image of the Physician's Existence. From the author's Preface: "In this book I invite the reader to accompany me on a tour of the sites where the cult of Asklepios, god of medicine and god of the Greek physicians, was practiced." It includes chapters on Asklepios in Rome, Epidauros, The Sons of Asklepios on Kos, Hero Physicians and the Physician of the Gods in Homer, and The Origins in Thessaly. The Postscript titled, On Snakes and Mice in the Cults of Apollo and Asklepios, contains a personal experience of the author at the site of the ruins of the ancient Thymele at Epidauros.

Kerenyi, Karl., Athene, Virgin and Mother in Greek Religion. The Awesome Goddess who affects the fates of both women and men. Athene unites the virginal father's-daughter and the encouraging mother of the spirit--illuminating equally the competent, practical housewife and the aggressive, male-suited professional woman. Discusses the mythological background of communal and political consciousness, individuality, and the power of mind. With a psychological postscript by Murray Stein.

Kerenyi, C., Dionysos, Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life. No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the sensuous tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. In myth and image, in visionary experience and ritual representation, the Greeks possessed a complete expression of indestructible life, the essence of Dionysos. In this work the noted mythologist and historian of religion Carl Kerenyi presents an historical account of the religion of Dionysos from its beginnings in the Minoan culture down to its transition to a cosmic and cosmopolitan religion of late antiquity under the Roman Empire.

Kerenyi, Carl, Eleusis, Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter, tr. by Ralph Manheim. The Sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens, was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts of the civilized world. Looking at the tendency to "see visions," C. Kerenyi examines the Mysteries of Eleusis from the standpoint not only of Greek myth but also of human nature. Kerenyi holds that the yearly autumnal "mysteries" were based on the ancient myth of Demeter's search for her ravished daughter Persephone--a search that he equates not only with woman's quest for completion but also with every person's pursuit of identity.

Kerenyi, Karl, Goddesses of Sun and Moon. Karl Kerenyi, a colleague of C. G. Jung's and one of the major mythographers of this century, here takes a novel look at four unusual feminine configurations depicted in Greek mythology. The vision that emerges restores passionate feminine consciousness to its rightful place both in politics and in the economy of the psyche. The four papers explore the mythemes of Circe, the enchantress; Media, the murderess; Aphrodite, the golden one; and Niobe of the Moon. Together they lend a deep psychological orientation to some of the most puzzling and controversial issues of our day: feminism, the occult, aesthetics, madness, dreams, even terrorism. Lucid, intuitive, and psychologically useful.

Kerenyi, C., The Gods of the Greeks. Drawing on a wealth of sources, from Hesiod to Pausanias and from the Orphic Hymns to Proclus, Professor Kerenyi provides a clear and scholarly exposition of all the most important Greek myths. The complex genealogies of the gods lead him from the begettings of the Titans, from Aphrodite under all her titles and aspects, to the reign of Zeus, to Apollo and Hermes, touching the affairs of Pan, nymphs, satyrs, cosmogonies and the birth of mankind, until he reaches the ineffable mysteries of Dionysos. The narrative is complemented by an appendix of detailed references to all the original texts. This book, in my opinion, is like no other and an indispensable part of my research library.

Kerenyi, Karl, Hermes, Guide of Souls. Karl Kerenyi, the famous mythographer, classicist and friend of Jung, here presents a beautiful, authoritative study of the great God whom the Greeks revered as Guide of Souls. Chapters on Hermes and Night, Hermes and Eros, Hermes and the Goddesses illuminate the complex role of Hermes in classical mythology, while also providing an archetypal background for the guiding of souls in psychotherapy. A vital contribution both to study of the classics and therapy of the soul.

Kerenyi, C., The Heroes of the Greeks, tr. by H. J. Rose. This is a companion volume that that above (The Gods of the Greeks) and is equally an indispensable part of any ancient Greek library. From the author's Preface: "It continues indeed the narrative of that learned Greek islander [Homer? Hesiod?] of our times into whose mouth the story of the gods was put, and complements it at every point where that ran into the story of the heroes. But we may as well take the opposite route, starting from the heavy destinies of these demi-gods who were often for that reason all the more suffering men, and so passing on to the playful existence of the 'easily-living' gods. Here it is not the world of the gods, but a whole world which will be revealed; sometimes it will seem familiar to us, sometimes strange, and handled from this side perhaps for the first time.

Karl Kerenyi, and James Hillman, Oedipus Variations, Studies in Literature and Psychoanalysis. Here is a deeper, richer protrait of the most famous of all Greek tragedies and the basic myth of psychoanalysis. First, Karl Kerenyi, the twentieth-century's genius mythographer, widens the myth's cultural context by introducing dramatic versions that played in Rome, Paris, Vienna, and London. Then, James Hillman takes on Father Freud and his Oedipus complex: every son wants to kill his father and marry Mom. Hillman inverts the emphasis: Why do fathers kill their sons? Further, what has this myth to do with gay men, since Oedipus's father was said to be the first pederast? Hillman also dreams the myth onward to the second Oedipus play where, int eh smiling anima landscape of Colonus, the blind old king, helped by his daughter, dies.

Kerenyi, C., The Religion of the Greeks and Romans. With 124 monochrome plates. This book sets out to be a guide, not to the cult-places of a single deity, but to all the cult-places, so to speak, of the Greek and Roman religion. The surviving material from which our knowledge of ancient religion is derived is both literary and visual. Both are abundant, and archaeology and scholarship in our time have made important additions to both. Thus a selection of pictures, to represent this abundance of visual material is an accompaniment to the text, is an essential part of the plan of this book.

Kerenyi, C., Zeus and Hera, Archetypal Image of Father, Husband, and Wife, tr. by Christopher Holme. Kerenyi Karoly (in the Hungarian) was born in Temesvar in the southwestern part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Timisoara, Romania). He was educated at the University of Budapest. Kerenyi believed every view of mythology is a view of man. Zeus and Hera is part of a series of monographs in which he presents a new picture of Greek religion from the standpoint of mythology. Here he discusses the origins of the Zeus religion, the emergence of the Olympian family and ends with two chapters on the cults of Hera as worshiped at her temples through out the Peloponnese, Euboea, and Boeotia on the mainland as well as on the island of Samos.

Knox, Bernard, The Heroic Temper, Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy. The six chapters of this book are a slightly expanded version of the lectures the author delivered as Sather Lecturer at Berkeley in the spring of 1963. The first two chapters provide an analysis of the literary phenomenon of the Sophoclean tragic hero and the succeeding four treat at some length the Antigone, the Philoctetes and the Oedipus at Colonus. "The modern concept of tragic drama takes for granted the existence of a single central character, whose action and suffering are the focal point of the play--what we call 'the tragic hero.'"