What is a Myth?

What is Classical Mythology?

How do we make sense of Classical Myths?

Why Study Classical Myths in the Twenty-First Century?

• The Greek Myths” In Our Time podcast with an introduction to Greek Myths led by BBC Radio 4 host Melvyn Bragg. Featuring Nick Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London; Richard Buxton, Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Bristol; Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at Cambridge University

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0093z1k

• Myth” entry in the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. 2005. This entry by Professor Robert Segal, Chair in Religious Studies at University of Aberdeen. It contains background material on various important scholars of Myth.

  http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Myths.aspx