Roger D. Woodard is the Andrew van Vranken Raymond Professor of the Classics at the University of Buffalo (The State University of New York). He has held fellowships and visiting appointments at Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies, the American Academy in Rome, and the University of Oxford. He is the author and editor of numerous books, most recently Myth, Ritual, and Society in Mycenaean Anatolia (2025), Aeolic and Aeolians: Origins of an Ancient Greek Language and its Community of Speakers (2024), and Divination and Prophecy in the Ancient Greek World (2023).

• 1. Australian Aboriginal mythology John Morton; 2. Oceanic mythology Garry W. Trompf; 3. Greek mythographic tradition Jordi Pàmias; 4. Roman mythographic tradition Joseph Farrell; 5. Early Christian mythograpic tradition: the fathers of the church and the gnostics Luc Brisson; 6. Ancient mythologies in the Islamicate world: five instances of reception Geoffrey Moseley; 7. Medieval mythographic tradition Katie Reid; 8. Early modern mythographic tradition Anna-Maria Hartmann; 9. Later eighteenth-century and romantic mythographic tradition Jennifer Wallace; 10. Modern mythographic tradition Justine McConnell; 11. Literary reception of non-Indo-European mythic tradition and its mythography Molly Youngkin; 12. Myth and mythography on screen: Homer and post-Homerica Martin M. Winkler; 13. Pre-nineteenth century scholarly interpreters of myth Andrew Hadfield; 14. The study of mythology in nineteenth-century German Altertumswissenschaft Michael D. Konaris; 15. Nineteenth-century French tradition: mythology and linguistics Charles Delattre; 16. Émile Durkheim and the origin and operation of myth in evolutionary Perspective Alexandra Maryanski; 17. Marcel Mauss, myth, and ritual Erwan Dianteill; 18. Sir James Frazer and The Golden Bough Eric Csapo; 19. Myth and the Cambridge ritualists Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui; 20. Freud and the psychoanalytic interpretation of myth Richard H. Armstrong; 21. Bronislaw Malinowski: concept and theory of myth Ivan Strenski; 22. Vladimir Propp and myth Richard P. Martin; 23. Roman Jakobson on myth Gregory Nagy; 24. Claude Lévi-Strauss Daniel Dubuisson; 25. Roland Barthes and French literary theory on myth Katja Haustein; 26. The Œuvre of Georges Dumézil: an overview Bernard Sergent; 27. Benveniste, Dumézil, and Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France Stuart Elden; 28.The 'Paris School' and the structuralist study of (Greek) myth Claude Calame; 29. Walter Burkert on sacrifice, myth and the ancient Near East Jan Bremmer; 30. The study of myth in the twenty-first century: approaches – questions – perspectives Christian Zgoll.