TY  - GEN
T1  - Greek mythography in the Roman world
T2  - American classical studies ;
A1  - Cameron, Alan, 1938-2017
LA  - English
PP  - Oxford ; New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2004
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm61342533
AB  - By the Roman age the traditional stories of Greek myth had long since ceased to reflect popular culture. Mythology had become instead a central element in elite culture. If one did not know the stories one would not understand most of the allusions in the poets and orators, classics and contemporaries alike; nor would one be able to identify the scenes represented on the mosaic floors and wall paintings in your cultivated friends' houses, or on the silverware on their tables at dinner. Mythology was no longer imbibed in the nursery; nor could it be simply picked up from the often oblique allusions in the classics. It had to be learned in school, as illustrated by the extraordinary amount of elementary mythological information in the many surviving ancient commentaries on the classics, notably Servius, who offers a mythical story for almost every person, place, and even plant Vergil mentions. Commentators used the classics as pegs on which to hang stories they thought their students should know. A surprisingly large number of mythographic treatises survive from the early empire, and many papyrus fragments from lost works prove that they were in common use.; In addition, author Alan Cameron identifies a hitherto unrecognized type of aid to the reading of Greek and Latin classical and classicizing texts-what might be called mythographic companions to learned poets such as Aratus, Callimachus, Vergil, and Ovid, complete with source references. Much of this book is devoted to an analysis of the importance evidently attached to citing classical sources for mythical stories, the clearest proof that they were now a part of learned culture. So central were these source references that the more unscrupulous faked them, sometimes on the grand scale.
OP  - 346
CN  - PA3070 .C36 2004eb
SN  - 9780198038214
SN  - 0198038216
SN  - 1423720652
SN  - 9781423720652
SN  - 0195171217
SN  - 9780195171211
SN  - 1280427825
SN  - 9781280427824
SN  - 9786610427826
SN  - 6610427828
SN  - 0190291095
SN  - 9780190291099
SN  - 1602564787
SN  - 9781602564787
KW  - Latin literature : Greek influences.
KW  - Latin literature : History and criticism.
KW  - Rome : Civilization : Greek influences.
KW  - Mythology, Greek : Historiography.
KW  - Mythology, Greek, in literature.
KW  - Littérature latine : Influence grecque.
KW  - Littérature latine : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Mythologie grecque : Historiographie.
KW  - Mythologie grecque dans la littérature.
KW  - Rome : Civilisation : Influence grecque.
KW  - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY : Latin.
KW  - Civilization : Greek influences
KW  - Latin literature
KW  - Latin literature : Greek influences
KW  - Mythology, Greek, in literature
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - Mythographie
KW  - Römisches Reich
KW  - Mythen.
KW  - Letterkunde.
KW  - Klassieke talen.
KW  - Klassieke oudheid.
KW  - Informatiebronnen.
KW  - Overlevering.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -