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’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 “Archaeology and Volcanism” 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.