Acknowledgments
Permissions
Preface
A Word on the Endnotes
1. Introduction: A Bowl of Myths and Stories
2. A Code for Questioners
3. Challenging Men to Gentleness: Apollo
4. Unfolded Into Light Through a Woman: The Pythia
5. Socrates Impoverished and Enriched
6. Croesus, King of Lydia: A Tale from the Age of Belief
7. A Chapter of Tales
8. Tales Mostly of War
9. The Sybarites' Question: Tales of Wisdom and Wrongdoing
10. One Golden Celery Plant: A Delphic Audit
11. "Hasten, Teiresias, Believe!"
12. Know Thyself
Afterword
Notes
Bibliographic Overview
Index