Cambridge Elements in Greek and Roman Mythology is a series for scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates. Individual Elements tackle topics that are significantly more complex and multifaceted than could be accommodated in a journal or edited volume, but they will not duplicate the handbooks/companions and other conventional resources. Rather, the Elements format will provide an opportunity for authors to explore interesting themes and newer ideas and approaches in Greek and Roman myth. Each Element will present an innovative framework or interpretative strategy with sufficiently broad implications to be adapted and further developed by readers in their own work. Some Elements take a specific theme or question and explore it across a number of mythic traditions. Others take a detailed look at a single mythic notion or figure by way of a ‘case study’ in a certain interpretative approach. Yet others are devoted to the interpretative history of the discipline.

Roger D. Woodard is Andrew van Vranken Raymond Professor of the Classics at the University of Buffalo. He has held fellowships and visiting appointments at, among other institutions, the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University, the American Academy in Rome, Oxford University, the Centro di Antropologia e Mondo Antico dell’Università di Siena, the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin, and the Max- Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie in Leipzig. He has lectured widely in the US, Europe, and Japan, and is author or editor of numerous books, including The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages (Cambridge, 2004), The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology (Cambridge, 2008) and Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European Antiquity (Cambridge, 2013).

Professor Roger D. Woodard, University of Buffalo, rwoodard@buffalo.edu