C. Kerényi

INTRODUCTION LORD KINROSS The eastern and the western Mediterranean differ as sharply, one from the other, as two distinct hemispheres. In the west, Europe flowers; in the east it is laid bare. The landscape of Italy smiles, all soft and caressing; that of Greece stares, challenging and tough....

PREFACEThe book which i now offer to the public is again full of matter, even more so than was my Gods of the Greeks. It continues indeed the narrative of that learned Greek islander of our times into whose mouth the story of the gods was put, and complements it at every point where that ran into...