This volume covers the creation myths, the legends of the birth and lives of the Olympians, the Thesus, Oedipus and Heracles cycles, the Argonaut voyage, the tale of Troy and much more in a harmonious narrative. Contains full references from classical sources, making this a valuable book to the scholar as well as the reader, with full commentaries on each myth that explains and interprets the classical version in the light of today's archeological and anthropological knowledge