This book, which takes its rise from the graphic, and indeed gruesome, tale of the daughters of Pelias and their deluded dismemberment of their aged father in the vain hope of conferring immortal youth upon him, attempts to begin to explore anew the role and meaning of the Greek myths, and what light they can throw on or have thrown on them by the now revived discipline of comparative Indo-European religion and mythology, revivified and re-established on new foundations during the last century by the patient and assiduous labours of Georges Dumezil and a small band of co-workers, without the...