Table of Contents
List of Illustrations viii
List of Maps xi
List of Tables xii
Notes on Contributors xiii
To the Reader xviii
Acknowledgements xxi
Glossary xxii
Abbreviations xxv
Approaching Myth 1
1 Thinking through Myth, Thinking Myth Through 3 Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone
PART I Establishing the Canon 25
2 Homer's Use of Myth 27 Françoise Létoublon
3 Telling the Mythology: From Hesiod to the Fifth Century 47 Ken Dowden
4 Orphic Mythology 73 Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
PART II Myth Performed, Myth Believed 107
5 Singing Myth: Pindar 109 Ian Rutherford
6 Instructing Myth: From Homer to the Sophists 125 Niall Livingstone
7 Acting Myth: Athenian Drama 141 Jean Alaux
8 Displaying Myth: The Visual Arts 157 Susan Woodford
9 Platonic 'Myths' 179 Penelope Murray
10 Myth in History 195 Alan Griffiths
PART III New Traditions 209
11 Myth and Hellenic Identities 211 Fritz Graf
12 Names and Places: Myth in Alexandria 227 Anatole Mori
13 The Myth of Rome 243 Matthew Fox
14 Displaying Myth for Roman Eyes 265 Zahra Newby
15 The Myth that Saves: Mysteries and Mysteriosophies 283 Ken Dowden
16 Myth and Death: Roman Mythological Sarcophagi 301 Zahra Newby
17 Myth in Christian Authors 319 Fritz Graf
PART IV Older Traditions 339
18 The Indo-European Background to Greek Mythology 341 Nicholas J. Allen
19 Near Eastern Mythologies 357 Alasdair Livingstone and Birgit Haskamp
20 Levantine, Egyptian, and Greek Mythological Conceptions of the Beyond 383 Nanno Marinatos and Nicolas Wyatt
PART V Interpretation 411
21 Interpreting Images: Mysteries, Mistakes, and Misunderstandings 413 Susan Woodford
22 The Myth of History: The Case of Troy 425 Dieter Hertel
23 Women and Myth 443 Sian Lewis
24 Mythology of the Black Land: Greek Myths and Egyptian Origins 459 Ian Rutherford
25 Psychoanalysis: The Wellspring of Myth? 471 Richard H. Armstrong
26 Initiation: The Key to Myth? 487 Ken Dowden
27 The Semiotics and Pragmatics of Myth 507 Claude Calame, translated by Ken Dowden
PART VI Conspectus 525
28 A Brief History of the Study of Greek Mythology 527 Jan N. Bremmer
Bibliography 549
Index of Texts Discussed 605
Index of Names 613
Index of Subjects 635
