The fluidity of myth and history in antiquity and the ensuing rapidity with which these notions
infiltrated and cross-fertilized one another has repeatedly attracted the scholarly interest.
The understanding of myth as a phenomenon imbued with social and historical nuances allows for
more than one methodological approaches. Within the wider context of interdisciplinary exchange
of ideas the present volume returns to origins as it traces and registers the association and
interaction between myth and history in various literary genres in Greek and Roman antiquity
(i.e. an era when the scientific definitions of and distinctions between myth and history had
not yet been perceived as such let alone fully shaped and implemented) providing original
ideas new interpretations and (re)evaluations of key texts and less well-known passages close
readings and catholic overviews. The twenty-four chapters of this volume expand from Greek
epos to lyric poetry historiography dramatic poetry and even beyond to genres of Roman era
and late antiquity. It is the editors' hope that this volume will appeal to students and
academic researchers in the areas of classics social and political history archaeology and
even social anthropology.
