Greek mythography in the Roman world /

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 contemporari...

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Autore principale: Cameron, Alan, 1938-2017
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Serie:American classical studies ; no. 48.
Accesso online:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=138232
Sommario:
  • An anonymous ancient commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses?
  • The Greek sources of Hyginus and narrator
  • Mythological summaries and companions
  • Narrator and his Greek predecessors
  • Historiae and source references
  • Bogus citations
  • Myth in the margins
  • Mythographus vergilianus
  • Myth and society
  • The Roman poets
  • Conclusion
  • App. 1. Lactantius placidus
  • App. 2. Three versions of Hyginus
  • App. 3. The text of the Narrationes
  • App. 4. Marginal source citations in Parthenius and Antoninus liberalis
  • App. 5. Source citations in the Origo Gentis Romanae
  • App. 6. Anonymus florentinus.