PART I. THE NATURE AND FUNCTION OF MYTH

1. Introduction to Greek Myth
2. Ways of Interpreting Myth

PART II. EPIC MYTHS AND THE HEROIC QUEST

3. In the Beginning: Hesiod's Theogony
4. Alienation of the Human and Divine: Prometheus, Fire, and Pandora
5. The Great Goddess and the Goddesses: The Divine Woman in Greek Mythology
6. The Olympian Family of Zeus: Sharing Rule of the Universe
7. In Touch with the Gods: Apollo's Oracle at Delphi
8. Dionysus: Rooted in Earth and Ecstasy
9. The Land of No Return: The Gloomy Kingdom of Hades
10. Heroes of Myth: Man Divided Against Himself
11. Heroines of Myth: Women in Many Roles
12. Heroes at War: The Troy Saga
13. A Different Kind of Hero: The Quest of Odysseus

PART III. TRAGIC HEROES AND HEROINES

14. The Theater of Dionysus: Myth and the Tragic Vision
15. The House of Atreus: Aeschylus' Oresteia
16. The Tragic House of Laius: Sophocles' Oedipus Cycle
17. A Different Perspective on Tragedy: Euripides' Medea and the Bacchae

PART IV. THE WORLD OF ROMAN MYTH

18. The Roman Vision: Greek Myths and Roman Realities
19. Virgil's Roman Epic: The Aeneid
20. The Retelling of Greek Myths: Ovid's Metamorphosis

PART V. THE WESTERN WORLD'S TRANSFORMATION OF MYTH

21. The Persistence of Myth