I. Basic attitudes to myth and its interpretation

II. The relationship between myth and truth

III. The identification of problems

IV. The limits of interpretation

V. The 'De Iside et Osiride' as a handbook of the interpretation of myth

VI. Euhemerism

VII. Daemonological allegory

VIII. Physical allegory

IX. Metaphysical and spiritual allegory

V. Hades

XI. Moral allegory

XII. Pythagoreanism

XIII. The structural use of myth

XIV. Bibliography