ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the myths are regarded as stories believed to relate to the distant past, having gods as well as humans as their subject; mythology as a grouping of these stories into a more or less coherent scheme; legends as mythical stories about a particular place or person; folk-tales as fictional stories told for amusement or edification. It reviews myths from different literary sources, and check them against the picture presented by archaeology. Study of the Bronze Age is the province of the archaeologist, and it would be rash to elevate evidence from myth to take precedence over archaeological data; that is why discussion of myths postponed to this point. Apollo was worshipped on both Anaphe and Thera as Aigletes and on Anaphe also as Asgelatas, with a festival Asgelaia. Homer gives an account of the arrival of Tlepolemos in Rhodes from the mainland: he had accidentally killed his fathers uncle Likymnios, and so been forced into exile.
