Papers from a panel "Mythography in he Greek and Roman Worlds" held at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Philological Association in Philadelphia. Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-358) and index.
Contents:
The origins and development of Greek mythography. Herodotos and the early mythographers : the case of the Kabeiroi / R.L. Fowler -- Choerilus Mythistoricus / K.A. MacFarlane -- Greek Thebes in early mythographic tradition / D.W. Berman -- Hellenistic and imperial mythography. Local mythography : the pride of the Halicarnassus / J.N. Bremmer -- Citation, organization and authorial presence in Ps.-Apollodorus' Bibliotheca / S.M. Trzaskoma -- Text and transmission of Ps.-Apollodorus' Bibliotheca : avenues for future research / U. Kenens -- Traces of scholarship and erudition in Greek mythographic payri from the Roman period / M. Huys --Hyginus' fabulae : toward a Roman mythography / K.F.B. Fletcher -- Mythographic material and method in the so-called "Statius Scholia' / R.S. Smith -- The mythographic impulse and other genres. Geographers as mythographers : the case of Strabo / L.E. Patterson -- Complementarity and contradiction in Ovidian mythography / J. Farrell -- Young Achilles in the Roman world / A. Cameron -- True or false? Greek myth and mythography in the progymnasmata / C.A. Gibson -- Fulgentius the mythographer / G. Hays.
Series:
Studies in the history and anthropology of religion ; 4
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