The essays included are:

Structures of Myth
- The Hesiodic myth of the generations. An attempt at structural analysis.
- The Hesiodic myth of the generations. Regarding a "reexamination attempt".
- Structural analysis and the myth of the generations

Mythical aspects of memory and time
- Mythical aspects of memory
- The river Lethe and the "study of death"

The organization of space
- Hearth-Hermes. Regarding the religious expression of space and movement.
- Geometry and spherical astronomy in early Greek cosmology
- Geometric structure and political concepts in the cosmology of Anaximander
- Space and political organization in ancient Greece