A Companion to Greek Mythology

Ken Dowden (Editor), Niall Livingstone (Editor)

ISBN: 978-1-4051-1178-2

Hardcover

672 pages

May 2011, Wiley-Blackwell

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A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks’ contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the Greco-Roman world.

Features essays from a prestigious international team of literary experts
Includes coverage of Greek myth’s intersection with history, philosophy and religion
Introduces readers to topics in mythology that are often inaccessible to non-specialists
Addresses the Hellenistic and Roman periods as well as Archaic and Classical Greece