"Kerényi shows an admirable mastery of tragic themes: the titanic rebellion, divine punishment, immortality and suffering, divine justice and the ambiguous human condition."
Carlos Garcia Gual, Babelia?

«Karl Kerényi belongs to the most select group of scholars of Greek mythology in the last century».
Ignacio F. Garmendia, Diario de Sevilla

Primal Images of Greek Religion is an essential work that shows us the best Kerényi, erudite and shrewd, and offers us a journey that is as didactic as it is exciting through various themes and aspects of mythology and the archaic cults of Ancient Greece. Either carrying out a fascinating analysis of the figure of Asclepius, son of Apollo and deity of medicine, and in turn tracing a kind of prehistory of the medical profession; either by studying the elusive Hermes in his facet as a psychopomp and in his relationship with the underworld; either approaching an enigmatic and primitive mystery cult professed to some obscure chronic deities in Samothrace; or interpreting the myth of Prometheus, the fallen titan who stole the divine fire to give it to men and was punished by Zeus, Kerényi displays, at all times, an admirable intuition and capacity for inquiry.

Sixth Floor rescues, bringing them together in a single volume, the four magnificent works that make up the Primal Images of Greek Religion series: "The Divine Physician", "Hermes, the conductor of souls", "Mysteries of the Cabiros" and "Prometheus". . This essay is a gift for lovers of ancient religion and Greek mythology.