Greece
Peloponnese (Argolid, Corinthia, Laconia, Arcadia, Messinia
Elis, Achaia)
Attica (Athens)
Boeotia (Thebes)
Thessaly
Macedonia and Thrace
Ionia
Crete
the Cyclades
Cyprus
Mount Olympus
Magna Graecia (southern Italy)
Sicily
mythos
logos
epic poetry, narrative poetry, hymns, tragic drama
divine myths
Theogony, Hesiod
legend
Iliad and Odyssey, Homer
saga
folktale
anthropomorphic
ichor
ambrosia
nectar
patriarchal family
foundation myths
hero myths
cosmos, cosmogonies
creation and ritual myths
allegory
externalist
internalist
structuralist
etiological = aitiological
universal archetype
collective unconscious
contextual approach
Hesiod, Greek mythographer (eighth century B.C.)
Homer, Greek poet (eighth century B.C.)
Herodotus, Greek historian (fifth century B.C.)
Apollodorus of Athens, Greek mythographer (c. 140 B.C.)
Pausanias, Roman historian (second century A.D.)
Plutarch, Greek biographer (c. A.D. 46-c. 120)
Ovid, Roman poet (43 B.C. -A.D. 17)
Euripides, Greek tragic dramatist (480-406 B.C.)
Socrates, Greek philosopher (c. 469-399 B.C.)
Plato, Greek philosopher (c. 427-349 B.C.)
Sir James Frazer, English anthropologist (1854-1941)
Bronislaw Malinowski, Polish anthropologist (1884-1942)
Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst (1856-1939)
Carl Jung, Swiss analytical psychologist (1875-1961)
Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist (1908-)