mythical story, it takes and gives back this complexity of sense. This complexity, or more precisely, this ' polyvalence ', can be observed on a synchronic level (that is, many senses for the same 'image' in [...] Consequently, reading the Greek mythology is similar to reading a language, in which the basic part (the ' image ') is the issue of the fusion between a signifier and a signified - that is between [...] testes réunis et présentés par R. Di Donato, préface de J.-P. Vernant, postface de Riccardo Di Donato, Paris 1983, pp. 403-420. ↩ See L. Gernet, Polyvalence des images. Testi e frammenti sulla