Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Approaching Myth. Thinking through Myth, Thinking Myth Through / Ken Dowden, Niall Livingstone -- Establishing the Canon. Homer's Use of Myth / Fraṅoise Ľtoublon -- Telling the Mythology: From Hesiod to the Fifth Century / Ken Dowden -- Orphic Mythology / Radcliffe G Edmonds -- Myth Performed, Myth Believed. Singing Myth: Pindar / Ian Rutherford -- Instructing Myth: From Homer to the Sophists / Niall Livingstone -- Acting Myth: Athenian Drama / Jean Alaux -- Displaying Myth: The Visual Arts / Susan Woodford -- Platonic ₁Myths₂ / Penelope Murray -- Myth in History / Alan Griffiths -- New Traditions. Myth and Hellenic Identities / Fritz Graf -- Names and Places: Myth in Alexandria / Anatole Mori -- The Myth of Rome / Matthew Fox -- Displaying Myth for Roman Eyes / Zahra Newby -- The Myth that Saves: Mysteries and Mysteriosophies / Ken Dowden -- Myth and Death: Roman Mythological Sarcophagi / Zahra Newby -- Myth in Christian Authors / Fritz Graf -- Older Traditions. The Indo-European Background to Greek Mythology / Nicholas J Allen -- Near Eastern Mythologies / Alasdair Livingstone, Birgit Haskamp -- Levantine, Egyptian, and Greek Mythological Conceptions of the Beyond / Nanno Marinatos, Nicolas Wyatt -- Interpretation. Interpreting Images: Mysteries, Mistakes, and Misunderstandings / Susan Woodford -- The Myth of History: The Case of Troy / Dieter Hertel -- Women and Myth / Sian Lewis -- Mythology of the Black Land: Greek Myths and Egyptian Origins / Ian Rutherford -- Psychoanalysis: The Wellspring of Myth? / Richard H Armstrong -- Initiation: The Key to Myth? / Ken Dowden -- The Semiotics and Pragmatics of Myth / Claude Calame, Ken Dowden -- Conspectus. A Brief History of the Study of Greek Mythology / Jan N Bremmer -- Bibliography -- Index of Texts Discussed -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

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 expertsIncludes coverage of Greek myth's intersection with history, philosophy and religionIntroduces readers to topics in mythology that are often inaccessible to non-specialistsAddresses th.