Greco-Roman Research: Mythology

Explores, 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.

Offers scholarly, yet accessible accounts of those mythological tales surrounding such gods as Apollo, Zeus, Athena and Dionysus, and mortals such as Achilles, Odysseus, Jason, Aeneas, Romulus and Remus and Tarquin.

Highlights the routes and works through which the myths of Greece and Rome have passed into the cultural memory of Europe over the centuries, into its literature, music and art and its reflections on aesthetics and philosophy.

Covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical and into the Hellenistic period.

Ando argues that the Romans acquired knowledge of the gods through observation of the world, and that their rituals were maintained or modified in light of what they learned, then pursues a variety of themes essential to the study of religion in history.