Lowell Edmunds is an emeritus professor of classics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His books include Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry and Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece, both published by Johns Hopkins.

The quality and success of the first edition of this work finds a new iteration in the thoroughly new second edition... Very useful for both scholars and seminars on ancient Greek mythology. Choice

• Preface General Introductions Chapter 1. The Reception of Greek MythChapter 2. What's Sauce for the Goose is Sauce for the Gander: Myth and Ritual, Old and New Chapter 3. Greek and Near Easter Mythologies: A Story of Mediterranean Chapter 4. Hierarchy, Heroes, and Heads: Indo-European Structures in Greek Myth Chapter 5. Odysseus and the Oar: A Comparative Approach to a Greek Legend Chapter 6. Narrative Semantics and Pragmatics: The Poetic Creation of Cyrene Chapter 7. Mythis in Images: Theseus and Medea as a Case Study Chapter 8. Greek Myth and Psychoanalysis Contributors Index

Lowell Edmunds is an emeritus professor of classics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His books include Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry and Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece, both published by Johns Hopkins.

The quality and success of the first edition of this work finds a new iteration in the thoroughly new second edition... Very useful for both scholars and seminars on ancient Greek mythology. Choice

• Preface General Introductions Chapter 1. The Reception of Greek MythChapter 2. What's Sauce for the Goose is Sauce for the Gander: Myth and Ritual, Old and New Chapter 3. Greek and Near Easter Mythologies: A Story of Mediterranean Chapter 4. Hierarchy, Heroes, and Heads: Indo-European Structures in Greek Myth Chapter 5. Odysseus and the Oar: A Comparative Approach to a Greek Legend Chapter 6. Narrative Semantics and Pragmatics: The Poetic Creation of Cyrene Chapter 7. Mythis in Images: Theseus and Medea as a Case Study Chapter 8. Greek Myth and Psychoanalysis Contributors Index

Lowell Edmunds is an emeritus professor of classics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His books include Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry and Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece, both published by Johns Hopkins.

The quality and success of the first edition of this work finds a new iteration in the thoroughly new second edition... Very useful for both scholars and seminars on ancient Greek mythology. Choice

• Preface General Introductions Chapter 1. The Reception of Greek MythChapter 2. What's Sauce for the Goose is Sauce for the Gander: Myth and Ritual, Old and New Chapter 3. Greek and Near Easter Mythologies: A Story of Mediterranean Chapter 4. Hierarchy, Heroes, and Heads: Indo-European Structures in Greek Myth Chapter 5. Odysseus and the Oar: A Comparative Approach to a Greek Legend Chapter 6. Narrative Semantics and Pragmatics: The Poetic Creation of Cyrene Chapter 7. Mythis in Images: Theseus and Medea as a Case Study Chapter 8. Greek Myth and Psychoanalysis Contributors Index