Who would be most interested in the rituals behind a myth?

Who would be the likeliest to agree with this statement: "The return of the hero from the land of the dead symbolizes the return of the sun after an eclipse"?

Which interpreter of myth would be most fascinated by the patterns of incest in the Greek creation story?

Who would ignore the specifics of plot entirely in favor of the standard actions taking place beneath the surface?

It's all about oppositions:
good, evil
life, death
cosmic, terrestrial
nature, culture

We are the ritualists.

"The king must die."

Our earliest and, according to our editors, our prime source of Greek myth is _____.

They all treated the Oedipus story in some fashion.

The story of Oedipus is the story of us all, or could be.

This is the message of the Oedipus story: "Humans are born from other humans. No, humans are born from the earth."

His Metamorphoses is probably the most influential source of mythology of all time.

He gave us the Iliad and Odyssey, whoever he was.

He carried on the story of the Trojan cycle by telling what happened to Aeneas.

He provided much of our knowledge of the kings of Rome.

He said the gods were in reality great kings whose reputations grew and grew and grew.

Apollonius of Rhodes retold the story of _____.

If you want to understand the structure of Greek myths, you must take into account the culture in which they developed.

Beneath the bright surface of Greek mythology lies a dark and frightening substratum of spirits and fear.

He gave us the concept of the archetype: the Hero, the Wise Old Man, the Mother.

It's all about the goddess.

Myths establish the charter for our everyday lives. They don't live in us; we live in them.