The seventy-two entries in this volume explore, among other topics, the history, geography, and religion of Greece, Plato's mythology and philosophy, the powers of marriage in Greece, heroes and gods of war in the Greek epic, and origins of mankind in Greek myths.
The articles offer illuminating examples of the working of myth in cultures past and present-how we create, use, and are guided by systems of myth to answer fundamental questions about ourselves and our world.
