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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marincola, John, Editor.

Romano, Allen J., Editor.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; Volume 92.

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 92

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mythology, Greek.

Mythology, Classical, in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 contemporaries take on positions of, alternately, "host" or "parasite" in relation to the other exposes the richness mythographic practice and the roles that mythographers played in the evolving Greco-Roman discourse of myth. From, among others, the seeds of mythographic discourse in Pindar and Plato, to the mythography of the Peripatics, the in-between mythography of Diodorus Siculus, and the "mythographic topography" of Pausanias, this volume invites a reappraisal of the role that mythography played at every stage of Greek thought about myth. Through contributions that explore both mythographers' distinctive style of studying myth to other contributions that focus primarily on the how and why of non-mythographers' use of mythographic techniques, what emerges is a picture of mythography that broadens our conception of mythography while at the same time inviting scholars to seek out more such echoes of mythographic discourse in the work of poets, historians, philosophers at large.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110672855

3110672855

9783110672824

3110672820

OCLC:

1129194864