Myths on the margins of Homer : prolegomena to the Mythographus Homericus / edited by Joan Pagès and Nereida Villagra.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pagès, Joan, editor.

Villagra, Nereida, editor.

Series:

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; v.124

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mythology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, [2022]

Summary:

Even though there is agreement on the existence of an Imperial commentary on Homer, going under the name Mythographus Homericus, a large-scale study of this work has been lacking. The objective of this collective volume is to fill this blank. The authors represent diverse opinions, a consequence of the complex nature of the textual tradition but also of the difficulty of defining the nature of this mythographic work itself. This volume offers a study of Mythographus Homericus from different perspectives: the place of the work in the history of scholarship, the state of the text, which has been transmitted by scholia and papyri, its readership, its place in mythography and in Homeric scholarship, its intertextual relationship to other mythographic works or scholiastic corpora and its contribution to the study of myth from a typological perspective.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Introduction

Part I: The Historical Context of the Birth of the Mythographus Homericus

Panzer, the Mythographus Homericus, and fin de siècle German Scholarship

Part II: The Text

The Ecdotic Problem of the Mythographus Homericus: Some Thoughts on the Scholiastic Side

Notes on the Manuscript Transmission of some Fragments of the Mythographus Homericus on the Odyssey

Part III: The Mythographical Work

Aetia and Foundation Myth in the Mythographus Homericus: Some Examples from the Papyri

Towards an Edition and Commentary of the Mythographus Homericus on the Odyssey

Part IV: The Mythographus Homericus in Context: Intertextuality, Parallels and the Study of Myth

The Varying Correspondence between the Mythographus Homericus Corpus and 'Apollodorus' the Mythographer

The Myth of the Mythographus Vergilianus

Heracles' Sack of Troy in Mythographus Homericus (D schol. Il. 20.145)

Afterword

List of Contributors

Index Nominum et Rerum

Index Locorum.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-11-075119-4