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Literary Criticism Ancient & Classical

Early Greek Mythography

Volume 1: Text and Introduction

edited by Robert L. Fowler

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2000
Category
Ancient & Classical
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780198147404
    Publish Date
    Dec 2000
    List Price
    $395.00

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This volume collects together the scattered quotations of the Greek writers of the sixth to the fourth centuries BC who first recorded in prose the tales of Greek mythology (the 'mythographers'). Volume 1 is an edition of the texts, whilst Volume 2, which provides the commentary, will follow in a couple of years' time. Here Professor Fowler presents new texts of Hekataios' Genealogies, Akousilaos, Pherekydes of Athens, the mythographical works of Hellanikos, Andron of Halikarnassos, pseudo-Epimenides, Herodoros, and many other ancient Greek mythographers. The texts are based on a fresh examination of manuscripts and papyri, particularly of the minor scholia to Homer. Read together for the first time, these texts represent an important and understudied genre of early Greek literature.

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Robert L. Fowler (1942-2014) was a professor of Classical Studies, University of Waterloo.

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Editorial Reviews

'An extremely useful collection of the early evidence for writers of "myth as history"' D. Felton, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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