pt. 1. Social context: Levi-Strauss, myth, and the neolithic revolution -- Large phases of myth -- pt. 2. Classical example: Heraclitus and the conditions of utterance -- Pindar: "Great deeds of prowess are always many-mythed" -- Inquiry: Herodotus -- Ovid: the dialectics of recovery from atavism -- pt. 3. Elementary forms: Between prose and poetry: the speech and silence of the proverb -- Between myth and proverb: the self-enclosure of the riddle -- Parable -- Metaphor: literature's access to myth -- Language and myth.
