Greek Mythology and Poetics

In this new edition of Greek Mythology and Poetics, Gregory Nagy revisits the relationship between myth and ritual in ancient Greek society. His far-reaching assessment provides fresh illumination of the forces of interaction and change that transformed the Indo-European linguistic and cultural heritage into distinctly Greek social institutions between the eighth and the fifth centuries B.C.E.

Nagy's major essays on various aspects of the Hellenization of Indo-European poetics, myth and ritu...