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| List of figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Definitions and Interpretation | |
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| What Is a Myth? | |
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| Myth in Homer and Hesiod | |
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| Muthos in Pindar | |
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| Muthos in Plato | |
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| Muthos in Aristotle | |
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| Modern Definitions | |
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| The Meaning of Myth I: Ancient and Premodern Theories | |
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| Greek Theories | |
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| Physical Allegory | |
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| Historical Allegory: Euhemerism | |
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| Moral Allegory | |
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| Medieval and Renaissance Theories | |
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| Theories of the Enlightenment | |
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| The Meaning of Myth II: Modern Theories | |
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| Romantic Theories | |
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| Anthropological Theories | |
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| Linguistic Theories | |
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| Psychological Theories | |
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| Structuralist Theories | |
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| Contextual Approaches | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Background | |
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| The Cultural Context of Greek Myth | |
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| Greek Geography | |
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| Greek History | |
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| Greek Society | |
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| Greece and Rome | |
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| The Development of Classical Myth | |
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| Roots of Muthoi in the Bronze Age and the Ancient Near East | |
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| The Singers of Muthoi | |
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| Muthoi in the Greek Archaic Period | |
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| Muthoi in the Greek Classical Period | |
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| Myth in the Hellenistic Period | |
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| The Roman Appropriation of Greek Myth | |
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| Themes | |
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| Myth and Creation: Hesiod's Theogony and Its Near Eastern Sources | |
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| Divine Myth | |
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| Hesiod's Theogony | |
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| The Triumph of Marduk | |
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| The Hittite Kingship in Heaven and the Song of Ullikummi | |
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| The Divine Myth of Succession in Hesiod and the Near East | |
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| Greek Myth and Greek Religion: Persephone, Orpheus, and Dionysus | |
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| Religion: General | |
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| Some Religious Emblems Drawn into Myth | |
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| Demeter and Persephone | |
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| The Eleusinian Mysteries | |
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| The Myth and Cult of Dionysus | |
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| The Myth and Religion of Orpheus | |
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| Myth and the Hero: The Legends of Heracles and Gilgamesh | |
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| Heroes and Heroines | |
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| Heracles, son of Zeus | |
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| The Mesopotamian Hero Gilgamesh | |
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| The Way of the Hero | |
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| Myth and History: Crete and the Legend of the Trojan War | |
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| Herodotus, Father of History | |
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| Myth and History in Thucydides | |
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| Heinrich Schliemann and Troy | |
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| Archaeology and Cretan Myth | |
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| Myth and Folktale: The Legend of Odysseus' Return | |
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| Folktale | |
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| The Folktale of Potiphar's Wife | |
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| The Greek Hero Perseus and Folktale | |
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| Odysseus and Folktale | |
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| The Folktale of the Man Who Returned | |
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| Myth and Society: The Legend of the Amazons | |
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| Amazons: the Women Who Hated Men | |
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| The Meaning of the Amazons | |
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| Myth and Law: The Legend of Orestes | |
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| A House of Horrors: The Mythical Background to The Oresteia | |
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| Aeschylus' Agamemnon | |
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| Aeschylus' Libation Bearers | |
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| Aeschylus' Eumenides | |
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| The Oresteia: A Parable of Progress | |
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| Roman Myth and Roman Religion: The Metamorphoses of Ovid | |
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| Roman Religion and Roman Myth-Makers | |
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| Ovid's Metamorphoses | |
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| Myth and Politics: The Myth of Theseus and the Aeneid of Vergil | |
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| Theseus of Athens | |
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| Roman Gods of the Family and State | |
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| The Aeneid: An Epic of National Rebirth | |
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| Myth And Art | |
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| Greek Myths from Eastern Art | |
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| The Greek Invention of Mythic Illustration | |
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| Index | |
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| Chart: The Greek and Roman Pantheon | |