Host or Parasite? : : Mythographers and their Contemporaries in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods /

Host or Parasite? : : Mythographers and their Contemporaries in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods / / ed. by Allen J. Romano, John Marincola.

Building upon the explosion of recent work on mythography, contributions to this volume direct attention to less frequently explored questions of how ancient poets, historians, and philosophers themselves adopted and adapted the work of mythographers. Study of the way that mythographers and their co...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Dowden, Ken,
Ford, Andrew,
Fowler, Robert,
Hawes, Greta,
Marincola, John,
Nünlist, René,
Romano, Allen J.,
Wissmann, Jessica,
HerausgeberIn:
Marincola, John,
Romano, Allen J.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 92
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 190 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Mythographic Discourse among non- Mythographers: Pindar’s Ol. 1, Plato’s Phaedrus and Callimachus’ Hymn to Zeus
  • Myth(ography), History and the Peripatos
  • Questions of Mythology as Seen through the Eyes of a Hellenistic Critic
  • Diodorus the Mythographer?
  • Does Mythography Care About Good or Bad?
  • Vergil the Mythographer
  • The Mythographical Topography of Pausanias’ Periegesis
  • Bibliography
  • About the Contributors
  • Index Locorum
  • Index of Names and Subjects

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