Description: Preface PART I. THE NATURE AND FUNCTION OF MYTH 1. Introduction to Greek Myth 2. Ways of Interpreting Myth PART II. EPIC MYTHS AND THE HEROIC QUEST 3. In the Beginning: Hesiod'sTheogony 4. Alienation of the Human and Divine: Prometheus, Fire, and Pandora 5. The Great Goddess and the Goddesses: The Divine Woman in Greek Mythology 6. The Olympian Family of Zeus: Sharing Rule of the Universe 7. In Touch with the Gods: Apollo's Oracle at Delphi 8. Dionysus: Rooted in Earth and Ecstasy 9. The Land of No Return: The Gloomy Kingdom of Hades 10. Heroes of Myth: Man Divided Against Himself 11. Heroines of Myth: Women in Many Roles 12. Heroes at War: The Troy Saga 13. A Different Kind of Hero: The Quest of Odysseus PART III. TRAGIC HEROES AND HEROINES 14. The Theater of Dionysus: Myth and the Tragic Vision 15. The House of Atreus: Aeschylus'Oresteia 16. The Tragic House of Laius: Sophocles' Oedipus Cycle 17. A Different Perspective on Tragedy: Euripides'Medeaand theBacchae PART IV. THE WORLD OF ROMAN MYTH 18. The Roman Vision: Greek Myths and Roman Realities 19. Virgil's Roman Epic: TheAeneid 20. The Retelling of Greek Myths: Ovid'sMetamorphosis PART V. THE WESTERN WORLD'S TRANSFORMATION OF MYTH 21. The Persistence of Myth Glossary Selected Bibliography

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