Early Greek Myth is a much-needed handbook for scholars and others interested in the literary and artistic sources of archaic Greek myths and the only one of its kind available in English. Timothy Gantz traces the developinent of each myth in narrative form and summarizes the written and visual evidence in which the specific details of the story appear.
This exhaustive survey of early Greek mythological tniditions documents precisely which authors tell what parts of what, myths and with what variations.
Modeled on Carl Robert's revision of Ludwig Preller's nineteenth century classic Griechische Mythologie, Gantz's work is remarkably comprehensive, featuring a surprising amount of new material and a modernized reference system; Gantz has made a special effort to include artistic representations of the myths, according them a status equal to that of literary works, and providing the bibliographical information necessary to locate illustrations of them, The result is a handbook that provides much more concrete, accurate assistance to the reader than any other source available in English.

Timothy Gantz is associate professor of classics at the University of Georgia.