A Companion to Greek Mythology

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

Author: Ken Dowden
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 05/06/2011
Pages: 672
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.90lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.90w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9781405111782

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2011
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2011 pg. 9

About the Author
Ken Dowden is Professor of Classics and Director of the Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Uses of Greek Mythology (1992), European Paganism (2000), and Zeus (2006).

Niall Livingstone is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Isocrates' Busiris (2001) and, with Gideon Nisbet, a forthcoming book on Greek epigrams.