Penelope's loyalty. Achilles' heel. Trojan horse. The artist's muse. These concepts enter our lives - and remain with us forever. We call a handsome man Apollo, compare difficult, thankless work to the Augean stables - and talk about a person living in constant danger, that the sword of Damocles hangs over him. But what lies at the core these proverbs, sayings and stable phrases? The famous British scholar Stephen P. Kershaw offers in his lively and engagingly written book not only a new and original look at the myths of Ancient Greece, but also shows what influence these myths had on the development of Western culture, literature and art - from the Renaissance to the present day.