Prologue. Faraway, so close: mythic origins, contemporary art: the case of Kara Walker / Lisa Saltzman
Myth as meaning. A poetics of becoming: the mythography of Cy Twombly / Craig G. Staff
Art is glimpsed / Sharon Hecker
Narcissus, narcosis, neurosis: the visions of Yayoi Kusama / Jody B. Cutler
The porous space of Bracha L. Ettinger's Eurydices / Marisa Vigneault
Double take, or theorizing reflection in Felix Gonzalez-Torres / Jennie Hirsh
Myth as medium. Lichtenstein's Narcissus / Graham Bader
Philomela as metaphor: sexuality, pornography, and seduction in the textile works of Tracey Emin and Ghada Amer / Giulia Lamoni
Icarus returned: the falling man and the survival of antiquity / Sharon Sliwinski
Deep shit: thoughts on Wim Delvoye's Cloaca project / Isabelle Loring Wallace
Myth as method. A new Parrhasius: Duane Hanson's uncanny realism / Elizabeth Mansfield
Over and over, again and again / Emma Cocker
Video art in the House of Hades / Sophie-Isabelle Dufour
Epilogue. The sphinx unwinds her own sweet self / Joanna Frueh.
