Books

• Annus, Amar. The Standard Babylonian Epic of Anzu. The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2001.

• Campbell, Joseph. The Hero With a Thousand Faces. First published 1949.

• Campbell, Joseph. The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension. Viking Press, 1968.

• Campbell, Joseph; and Moyers, Bill. The Power of Myth. Based on the 1988 PBS documentary ‘Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth.’

• Clodd, Edward. Tom Tit Tot: An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk-tale. London: Duckworth and Co., 1898.

• The Epic of Gilgamesh; The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian, translated and with an introduction by Andrew George, 2nd edn. Penguin Books, 2016.

• Hahn, Daniel. The Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature. Oxford University Press, 2015.

• Mahdi, Muhsin (ed). The Arabian Nights. Transl. Hassan Haddawy. 1988.

• Manwaring, A (collected and translated by). Marathi Proverbs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1899.

• Mumford, Lewis. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, And Its Prospects. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961.

• Ramanujan, A.K. (ed). Folktales From India. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1994.

• Zipes, Jack. Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales. 1979

• Zipes, Jack. Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization. 1982

• Zipes, Jack. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1987, updated with additional tales in both 1992 and 2002)

Websites

• American Literature

• The Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction

• The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL)

• Folklinks: Folk and Fairy-Tale Sites, compiled by D.L. Ashliman, 1996-2020

• Folktexts: A Library of Folktales, Folklore, Fairy Tales, and Mythology: Folklore and Mythology
  Electronic Texts, edited and/or translated by D.L. Ashliman, 1996-2021

• The Geography of Knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia (GKAB): A Diachronic Analysis of Four Scholarly Libraries

• Greek Mythology

• Gods and Monsters

• Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

• The Jataka Tales: a selection edited by D.L. Ashliman, 2002-2020

• JSTOR Daily 

• The Mythology Project

• Poetry Foundation

• The Sources of Early Akkadian Literature (SEAL)

• Tales of the Old Forest Faeries

 Articles

• Acocella, Joan. “How to Read Gilgamesh,” The New Yorker, (October 7, 2019).
  The heart of the world’s oldest long poem is found in its gaps and mysteries.

• Brooks, Richard. “An Accurate Translation of Grimm’s Fairy Tales,” K-International,The Language Blog, (November 13, 2014).
  A new English translation of the original volume of fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm was just published… and it’s nothing like the wonderful world of Disney.

• Herrmann, Georgina. "Lapis Lazuli: The Early Phases of Its Trade," Iraq 30, no. 1 (1968): 21-57. Accessed May 2, 2021. doi:10.2307/4199836.

• Luu, Chi. “The Fairy Tale Language of the Brothers Grimm,” JSTOR Daily, (May 2, 2018).
  How the Brothers Grimm went hunting for fairytales, accidentally changed the course of historical linguistics, and kickstarted a new field of scholarship in folklore.

• Wee, John Z. "Lugalbanda Under the Night Sky: Scenes of Celestial Healing in Ancient Mesopotamia," Journal of Near Eastern Studies 73, no. 1 (2014): 23-42. Accessed May 2, 2021. doi:10.1086/674797

• Zipes, Jack. “How the Grimm Brothers Saved the Fairy Tale,” Humanities, March/April 2015, Volume 36, Number 2.
  The surprising history behind the world’s most famous collection of folk tales.

• “The Turnip Princess: a newly discovered fairytale,” The Guardian, (March 5, 2012).
  Once upon a time, the historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth collected fairytales in Bavaria, which were locked away in an archive until now … here is one of the newly discovered stories – ‘The Turnip Princess’.

• “Five Hundred New Fairytales Discovered in Germany,” The Guardian, (March 5, 2012).
  Collection of fairytales gathered by historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth had been locked away in an archive in Regensburg for over 150 years.

• “Jack Zipes on the ‘rediscovered’ Schönwerth fairy tales,” The Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction, (December 29, 2014).
  Jack Zipes gives a caveat against overestimating the importance of von Schönwerth’s work.

 Video/Audio Resources

• Andrew George, Introducing the Mythology of Ancient Iraq. First in a lecture series, The Gods of Old: the Mythology of Ancient Iraq. Delivered at SOAS University of London, 12 January 2019.

• Steve Tinney, Great Beasts of Legend: Anzu the Lion Headed Eagle. Penn Museum 2016-2017 Lecture Series.