The Greek myths / Robert Graves.

1st pub. by Penguin, 1955.

Includes bibliographical references.

'...a complete "mythology," in the sense of a retelling in modern terms of the Greek tales of gods and heroes....in nearly 200 sections, it covers the Creation myths, the legends of the birth and lives of the great Olympians, the Theseus, Oedipus, and Heracles cycles, the Argonaut voyage, the tale of Troy, and much else. All the scattered elements of each myth have been assembled into a harmonious narrative, which may help to determine its ritual orhistorical meaning. Full references to the classical sources, maps and copious indices, make the book as valuable to the scholar as to the general reader; and a full commentary to each myth explains and interprets the classical version in the light of today's archaeological and anthropological knowledge.'

Hardcover