About
- 1.Introduction
- 2.What Is Myth?
- 3.Why Is Myth?
- 4.“First Was Chaos”
- 5.The Reign of the Olympians
- 6.Immortals and Mortals
- 7.Demeter, Persephone, and the Conquest of Death
- 8.The Eleusinian Mysteries and the Afterlife
- 9.Apollo and Artemis
- 10.Hermes and Dionysos
- 11.Laughter-Loving Aphrodite
- 12.Culture, Prehistory, and the "Great Goddess"
- 13.Humans, Heroes, and Half-Gods
- 14.Theseus and the "Test-And-Quest" Myth
- 15.From Myth to History and Back Again
- 16.The Greatest Hero of All
- 17.The Trojan War
- 18.The Terrible House of Atreus
- 19.Blood Vengeance, Justice, and the Furies
- 20.The Tragedies of King Oedipus
- 21.Monstrous Females and Female Monsters
- 22.Roman Founders, Roman Fables
- 23.“Gods Are Useful”
- 24.From Ovid to the Stars