INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY 31Détienne, Marcel. The Creation of Mythology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
Dowden, K. The Uses of Greek Mythology. London: Routledge, 1992. A judicious assess-
ment of psychoanalytical approaches on pp. 32-34 and 180.
Dundes, A., ed. Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1984. A collection of writing by major interpreters of myth, includ-
ing Frazer, Eliade, Malinowski, Jung, and Lévi-Strauss.
Eliade, Mircea. The Myth of the Eternal Return. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954.
Edmunds, Lowell, ed. Approaches to Greek Myth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1990. A collection of essays. An article by E. Caldwell, "The Psychoanalytical
Interpretation of Greek Myth," seeks to reconcile Freudian and structuralist ap-
proaches.
Felton, D. Haunted Greece and Rome: Ghost Stories from Classical Antiquity. Austin: Uni-
versity of Texas Press, 1999. A folkloric and literary analysis of ancient ghost stories
and the influence and development of themes in modern times.
Fontenrose, Joseph. The Ritual Theory of Myth. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1971.
Frazer, James G. The New Golden Bough: A New Abridgement of the Classic Work. Edited by
Theodor H. Gaster. New York: Criterion Books, 1959; New York: Mentor Books,
1964.
Gomme, A. W. "The Position of Women at Athens in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C."
Essays in Greek History and Literature. New York: Essay Index Reprint Series, Books
for Libraries Press, 1967.
Gordon, R. L., ed. Myth, Religion, and Society: Structuralist Essays by M. Détienne, L. Ger-
net, J.-P. Vernant, and P. Vidal-Naquet. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Kirk, G. S. Myth: Its Meaning and Function in Ancient and Other Cultures. Berkeley: Uni-
versity of California Press, 1970. Valuable for its critical views of comparative stud-
ies.
. The Nature of Greek Myths. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1974. Useful for its treat-
ment of different approaches to myth.
Leach, E. Claude Lévi-Strauss. New York: Viking Press, 1970. A good exposition of Lévi-
Strauss; in the chapter "The Structure of Myth," Leach offers structural analysis of
several Greek myths.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. The Savage Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966 [1962].
. The Raw and the Cooked. Translated by J. and D. Weightman. New York: Harper
& Row, 1969. Volume 1 of the four volumes of Mythologiques; its "Overture" is the
best introduction to Lévi-Strauss.
Malinowski, B. Magic, Science, and Religion. New York: Doubleday, 1955. Includes "Myth
in Primitive Psychology," 1989 [1926].
Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale. 2d ed. Translated by Lawrence Scott. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1968 [1928]. The pioneer work in the structural theory of
myth.
Puhvel, Jaan. Comparative Mythology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. A
study of the prehistoric origins of mythical patterns in India, Iran, Greece, Rome,
and elsewhere.
Sebeok, T. A., ed. Myth: A Symposium. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971. An
especially valuable collection of essays on the major approaches to the interpretation
of myth.