Claude Calame is Directeur d'études, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and has published widely on Greek poetry and myth. His most recent books include Myth and History in Ancient Greece: The Symbolic Creation of a Colony (2003), Masks of Authority: Fiction and Pragmatics in Ancient Greek Poetics (2005) and Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece: Heroic Reference and Ritual Gestures (2008). Janet Lloyd is a highly regarded translator of scholarly books from French, who divides her time between Cambridge and Jaen.

'… for any reader who desires an introduction to myth theory or who wants to explore particular texts in more depth, Calame's Greek Mythology provides an excellent place to start.' Rosetta

• Foreword; 1. Narrative and poetic creations; 2. Bellerophon and the pragmatics of epic narrative; 3. Clytemnestra and Orestes at the Pythian games; 4. Io, the Danaids, the outside and tragic inflections; 5. Helen and the purposes of historiography; 6. Tiresias in an Alexandrian hymn; 7. Pausanias and the pantheon of Troezen; 8. Conclusion: virtual realities.

Claude Calame is Directeur d'études, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and has published widely on Greek poetry and myth. His most recent books include Myth and History in Ancient Greece: The Symbolic Creation of a Colony (2003), Masks of Authority: Fiction and Pragmatics in Ancient Greek Poetics (2005) and Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece: Heroic Reference and Ritual Gestures (2008). Janet Lloyd is a highly regarded translator of scholarly books from French, who divides her time between Cambridge and Jaen.

'… for any reader who desires an introduction to myth theory or who wants to explore particular texts in more depth, Calame's Greek Mythology provides an excellent place to start.' Rosetta

• Foreword; 1. Narrative and poetic creations; 2. Bellerophon and the pragmatics of epic narrative; 3. Clytemnestra and Orestes at the Pythian games; 4. Io, the Danaids, the outside and tragic inflections; 5. Helen and the purposes of historiography; 6. Tiresias in an Alexandrian hymn; 7. Pausanias and the pantheon of Troezen; 8. Conclusion: virtual realities.

Claude Calame is Directeur d'études, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and has published widely on Greek poetry and myth. His most recent books include Myth and History in Ancient Greece: The Symbolic Creation of a Colony (2003), Masks of Authority: Fiction and Pragmatics in Ancient Greek Poetics (2005) and Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece: Heroic Reference and Ritual Gestures (2008). Janet Lloyd is a highly regarded translator of scholarly books from French, who divides her time between Cambridge and Jaen.

'… for any reader who desires an introduction to myth theory or who wants to explore particular texts in more depth, Calame's Greek Mythology provides an excellent place to start.' Rosetta

• Foreword; 1. Narrative and poetic creations; 2. Bellerophon and the pragmatics of epic narrative; 3. Clytemnestra and Orestes at the Pythian games; 4. Io, the Danaids, the outside and tragic inflections; 5. Helen and the purposes of historiography; 6. Tiresias in an Alexandrian hymn; 7. Pausanias and the pantheon of Troezen; 8. Conclusion: virtual realities.