This revised translation of Fritz Graf's highly acclaimed introduction to Greek mythology offers a chronological
account of the principal Greek myths that appear in the surviving literary and artistic sources and concurrently
documents the history of interpretation of Greek mythology from the 17th century to the present. First surveying
the various definitions of myth that have been advanced, Graf proceeds to examine topics such as the relationship
between Greek myths and epic poetry, the connection between particular myths and shrines or holy festivals, the
use of myth in Greek song and tragedy, and the uses and interpretations of myth by philosophers and allegorists.