Michael Herren, The Anatomy of Myth: The Art of Interpretation from the Presocratics to the Church Fathers

 Michael Herren, The Anatomy of Myth: The Art of Interpretation from the Presocratics to the Church Fathers, Oxford University Press, New York, 2017

The Anatomy of Myth is a comprehensive study of the different methods of interpreting myths developed by the Greeks, adopted by the Romans, and eventually passed to Jewish and Christian interpreters of the Bible. Methods of myth interpretation are closely related to developments in Greek philosophy, beginning with the Presocratics in the 6th century B.C.E. and continuing to the Neoplatonists in the fifth century C.E.