Pictures of Initiation in Greek Mythology

Pictures of Initiation in Greek Mythology

A retelling of some of the Greek myths with comprehensive commentary sprinkled throughout the text to uncover the layers of spiritual meaning contained within these myths.

Topics Include:

• Creation
• Persephone
• Oedipus
• Hercules
• Jason
• Dionysius
• Theseus
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey

About the Author

Leo Heirman, Ph.D. (1914-1983) was born in Hillegom in the Netherlands. He was a student in classics at Leiden University when World War II began. It was while he was in the Dutch army that he discovered anthroposophy. During the German occupation he worked with severely handicapped children at the Sonnehuis in Zeist, and later spent two years in Poland as a prisoner of war. After the war, he completed his studies at Leiden. He began his career as a Waldorf class teacher at Vrye Waldorf School in The Hague. He moved to the United States in 1962 and taught in California at the Waldorf School in North Hollywood and Sacramento. He eventually relocated in the Midwest where he taught classics at Norther Illinois University at DeKalb. It is from from his very popular lectures at Northern Illinois, given over a period of ten years, that the material for this book derives. Leo Heirman was also active in helping to establish the Chicago and Milwaukee Waldorf Schools and was cofounder of the Rudolf Steiner Institute on the East Coast. He continued teaching at the institute in the summer even after his retirement in Holland. He was widely known to anthroposophist for his lectures on education and on Greek and Norse mythology.