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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| Formaat: | Licensed eBooks |
| Taal: | Engels |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Reeks: | American classical studies ;
no. 48. |
| Online toegang: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=138232 |
Inhoudsopgave:
- 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.