Before philosophy, in the strict sense of abstract, critical, and methodical thought, came into being man’s speculation, when they turned to the perennial problems of self and the universe, were expressed in myths. These myths are not mere stories, nor do they merely disguise an abstract truth. They represent a peculiar form of concrete thought, which should be analysed before the attempt is made to understand the mind of Ancient man, his moral and religious proccuptions.rnThe authors, who have concerted on the two oldest civilizations known - those of Egypt and Mesopotamia - have not shirked the first task. Just because they aimed at a deeper understanding of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian points of view in matters of life and death, the function of the state and the nature of the phenomenal world, they have taken the problems of myth seriously.rnThe have discussed the emergence of Greeks from those of their predecessors.