Oxford Dictionary of Mythology app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: MobiSystems, Inc.
First release : 14 Oct 2014
App size: 100.63 Mb
Since Plato first coined the term mythologia, the mythology has come to hold greater significance and power as a crucial element of civilization as a whole. Written by a leading scholars of ancient civilizations, A Dictionary of World Mythology presents the powerful gods of Greece, Rome, and Scandinavia, the more mystical deities of Buddhist and Hindu India, and the stern spirits of the African and American continents. Drawing upon hundreds of myths from around the globe, it not only reveals the vast differences in these civilizations, but also demonstrates the unity of mankind in its fundamental need for explanations of the unknown.
LATEST APP UPDАТES:
• Learn in style with any of the four colorful new themes – the colorful layout will turn your learning experience into an enjoyable routine. Customize your dictionary and benefit from the cheerful mood your favorite color brings you.
• Dive right into the intricacies of the language - with a new and convenient Home page, sleeker and more intuitive visual layout, as well as innovations in the speed of searches - you can now get to the desired entry faster than ever.
• Translate and learn as you speak with Talk & Translate – use this speech recognition & text-to-speech app by downloading it for Free from the App Store. The great synergy between the two apps will help you optimize your studies.
SEARCH TOOLS - quickly find words with the functional, clean and easy-to-use interface. Designed to provide the most comprehensive search experience, the dictionary combines several search tools to match or predict what are you looking for, including:
• Search autocomplete helps you find words quickly by displaying predictions as you type.
• Keyword lookup allows you to search within compound words and phrases.
• Camera search looks up words in the camera viewfinder and displays results in seconds.
• Voice search helps you find an entry using your speech.
• Automatic ‘Fuzzy filter’ that corrects word spelling and a ‘Wild card’ that allows you to replace a letter or entire parts of a word with * or ? when you don’t know how it`s spelled.
LEARNING TOOLS - engaging features that help you further enhance your vocabulary. Designed to give you the freedom to structure your studies, this dictionary combines several learning tools to help you be more organized:
• ‘Favorites’ that allow you to create custom folders with lists of words.
• Recent list which helps you to easily review looked-up words.
• Swipe-to-delete functionality in the Recent and Favorites menus.
• Word-of-the-day option to teach you a new word every day.
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Latest reviews of Oxford Dictionary of Mythology app for iPhone and iPad
There are a lot of mythologies included, many are still missing however. The mythology is lacking details that would be expected from Oxford Dictionaries. When Wikipedia gives more details than a company whos job it is to provide details it is sad. Back stories on many mythological characters are merely glossed over lacking the depth one might desire. This book proves to be more of a ready reference than a dictionary explaining full stories. I appreciate the ready reference but lacking the table of contents when it was shown in the images of the app was a disappointment.
It seems that everytime I type in results for many different mythos entities(Thor, Loki,etc), it shows no results!!