Classical Mythology: Images and Insights
Stephen L. Harris is Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Religious Studies at California State University, Sacramento, where he served ten years as department chair.   A Woodrow Wilson Fellow, he received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University.  A member of the American Academy of Religion and the Jesus Seminar, his publications include Understanding the Bible, The Old Testament: An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, and The New Testament: A Student&#8217;s Introduction.  He has also written books on geologic hazards, including Fire and Ice:  The Cascade and Mono Lake Volcanoes, Agents of Chaos: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Other Geologic Hazards, and, for National Geographic Books, Restless Earth. He contributed the chapter on &#8220;Archaeology and Volcanism&#8221; to the new Encyclopedia of Volcanoes (Academic Press, 2000).Gloria Platzner teaches in the  English and Humanities programs  at California State University, Sacramento, including courses on Classical Mythology and World Mythology.