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The White Goddess - A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth was originally published in 1948 and contains Graves' controversial and unorthodox theory of mythology, at once intuitive and grounded in research into pre-classical religions.
A comprehensive study by Veronica Ions from 1985. Through a rich depiction of deities, myths, and rituals, the work reveals in detail the spiritual world, beliefs about the afterlife, and the culture of ancient Egypt.
Vernant first told the stories published in this book to his grandson, and then, in a more complex form, he told them to his friends on summer evenings on a Greek island.