Almqvist's book is a fascinating read warmly to be welcomed. Constantly enlightening and thought-provoking, it is interspersed with intertextual parallels, analytic commentaries treated with intellectual vividness, close attention to detail and due caution to the pitfalls of the intra-/intertextual contextualisation and textual criticism.

The Classical Review

This book offers a fresh look at early creation myths in Greece (Hesiod's Theogony, the Orphic poem of the Derveni Papyrus and Plato's Protagoras) challenging the traditional interpretations and opening new paths to the understanding of the Greeks' views on the origins of gods, humans and cosmos.

Marco Antonio Santamaría, Associate Professor of Greek, University of Salamanca, Spain

Almqvist offers a striking and thought-provoking new insight on the Greek cosmological myths, imposing anthropological lenses on founding texts. It is not only “Descola among the Greeks”: this book investigates the Greeks' own exploration on ontological differences through poetry, and proposes a contribution to the ontological turn, via a fifth ontology, the pantheism.

Manon Brouillet, Associate Professor, Université de Picardie Jules-Verne, France

The book is noteworthy for the author's ability to address a complex topic in a clear and accessible manner, prioritizing the intelligibility of his ideas … The merit of this work lies in the originality of its interpretation of myths and in the consistent argumentation it advances.

Cadmo