The Pimlico Dictionary Of Classical Mythologies

The Pimlico Dictionary of Classical Mythologies is a unique work of reference which breaks new ground by treating for the first time the classical mythologies of the Old World as a whole. Never before have the mythologies of Greece, Rome, Persia, India and China been encompassed in a single volume, despite the fact that the first four have much in common through their Indo-European ancestry.

Arthur Cotterell shows how much more can be understood about 'classical mythology' by comparison and...