T. H. Carpenter的这本书是**本全面、简洁的学术性著作，对出现在希腊艺术中的神话进行了概述。本书图文并茂，是所有对古希腊艺术、戏剧、诗歌或宗教感兴趣的人必不可少的参考书。有了这本手册作为向导，读者们将能够在所有的古希腊和古典希腊艺术中识别神话中的场景。

The Greek myths are so much part of our culture that we tend to forget how they entered it in the first place. In some cases visual art provides our only evidence, as there is no surviving account in ancient Greek literature of such important stories as the Fall of Troy, or Theseus and the Minotaur. T. H. Carpenter’s book is the first comprehensive, scholarly yet succinct survey of myth as it appears in Greek art. Copiously illustrated, it is an essential reference work for everybody interested in the art, drama, poetry or religion of ancient Greece. With this handbook as a guide, readers will be able to identify scenes from myth across the full breadth of archaic and classical Greek art.