The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology

I suppose for most of us the Greek myths are primarily stories – a wonderful range of timeless narratives that have captivated people, across the Western world especially, throughout the millennia since their first devising. In truth it was probably those stories that were primarily responsible for my own study of Latin and Greek and reading classics as my degree subject. But wonderful though they are simply as narratives, the myths had – and still have – their own origins and contexts, and it is these that are explored in this fascinating companion. It is worth stressing that this is...