Writing myth : mythography in the ancient world / edited by Stephen M. Trzaskoma and R. Scott Smith.

Publication:

Leuven ; Paris ; Walpole, MA : Peeters, [2013]

Series:

Studies in the history and anthropology of religion ; 4.
Studies in the history and anthropology of religion ; 4

Format/Description:

Book
xxiv, 382 pages ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

Mythology, Greek -- Historiography -- Congresses.
Mythology, Roman -- Historiography -- Congresses.
Mythology, Greek, in literature -- Congresses.
Mythology, Roman, in literature -- Congresses.

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.

Notes:

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.

Contributor:

Trzaskoma, Stephen, editor of compilation.
Smith, R. Scott, 1971- editor of compilation.
American Philological Association. Annual Meeting 2009 : Philadelphia, Pa.)

ISBN:

9042929111

OCLC:

844155078

Publisher Number:

99956436545

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