The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Smith, R. Scott; Trzaskoma, Stephen M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The field of mythography has grown substantially in the past thirty years, an acknowledgment of the importance of how ancient writers "wrote down the myths" as they systematized, organized and interpreted the vast and contested mythical storyworld. With the understanding that mythography remains a contested category, that its borders are not always clear, and that it shifted with changes in the socio-cultural and political landscapes, The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography offers a range of scholarly voices that attempt to establish how and to what extent ancient writers followed the "mythographical mindset" that prompted works ranging from Apollodorus' Library to the rationalizing and allegorical approaches of Cornutus and Palaephatus. Editors R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma provide the first comprehensive survey of mythography from the earliest attempts to organize and comment on myths in the archaic period (in poetry and prose) to late antiquity. The essays also provide an overview of those writers we call mythographers and other major sources of mythographic material (e.g., papyri and scholia), followed by a series of essays that seek to explore the ways in which mythographical impulses were interconnected with other intellectual activities (e.g., geography and history, catasteristic writings, politics). In addition, another section of essays presents the first sustained analysis between mythography and the visual arts, while a final section takes mythography from late antiquity up into the Renaissance. While also taking stock of recent advances and providing bibliographical guidance, this Handbook offers new approaches to texts that were once seen only as derivative sources of mythical data and presents innovative ideas for further research. The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography is an essential resource for teachers, scholars, and students alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 752
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197642511
• Artikelnr.: 65826610

Autorenporträt

R. Scott Smith is Professor of Classics at the University of New Hampshire, where he has taught since 2000. His major field of study is ancient myth and mythography, with special focus on the intersection of mythography, space, and geography. He is currently co-director of a Greek mythical database (MANTO): https://manto.unh.edu. He also produces the podcast, The Greek Myth Files. Stephen M. Trzaskoma is Professor of Classics in the Department of Classics, Humanities & Italian Studies at the University of New Hampshire, where he has been a faculty member since 1999. He has published widely on two areas of ancient Greek literature and culture: first, prose fiction, especially the surviving novels from the Roman imperial period; second, Greek mythical narrative and mythography.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma
* Section 1: Mythography from Archaic Greece to the Empire
* 1. The Mythographical Impulse in Early Greek Poetry
* Pura Nieto
* 2. The Origins of Mythography as a Genre
* Jordi Pàmias
* 3. Hellenistic Mythography
* R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma
* 4. Imperial Mythography
* Charles Delattre, translated by Alexander Brock
* 5. Mythography in Latin
* R. Scott Smith
* Section 2: Mythographers
* 6. Mythography in Alexandrian Verse
* Evina Sistakou
* 7. Antihomerica: Dares and Dictys
* Ken Dowden
* 8. Antoninus Liberalis, Collection of Metamorphoses
* Charles Delattre, translated by Alexander Brock
* 9. Apollodorus the Mythographer, Bibliotheca
* Stephen M. Trzaskoma
* 10. Conon, Narratives
* Manuel Sanz Morales
* 11. Cornutus, Survey of the Traditions of Greek Theology
* Ilaria Ramelli
* 12. Diodorus Siculus, Library
* Iris Sulimani
* 13. Heraclitus the Mythographer, On Unbelievable Stories
* Greta Hawes
* 14. Heraclitus the Allegorist, Homeric Problems
* David Konstan
* 15. Hyginus, Fabulae
* Kris Fletcher
* 16. The Mythographus Homericus
* Joan Pagès
* 17. Other Mythography on Papyrus
* Annette Harder
* 18. Greek Mythography and Scholia
* Nereida Villagra
* 19. Ovid and Mythography
* Joseph Farrell
* 20. Palaphaetus, Unbelievable Tales
* Hugo Koning
* 21. Parthenius, Erotika Pathemata
* Christopher Francese
* 22. Pausanias, Description of Greece
* William Hutton
* 23. Tragic Mythography
* Chiara Meccariello
* Section 3: Interpretations and Intersections
* 24. Rationalizing and Historicizing
* Greta Hawes
* 25. Allegorising and Philosophising
* Ilaria Ramelli
* 26. Etymologizing
* Ezio Pellizer, translated by R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma
* 27. Catasterisms
* Arnaud Zucker
* 28. Local Mythography
* Daniel Berman
* 29. Mythography and Paradoxography
* Irene Pajón Leyra
* 30. Mythography and Education
* R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma
* 31. Mythography and Politics
* Lee Patterson
* 32. Mythography and Geography
* Maria Pretzler
* 33. Mythographer and Mythography: Indigenous Categories? Greek
Inquiries into the Heroic Past
* Claude Calame, translated by R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma
* Section 4: Mythography and Visual Arts
* 34. Mythography and Greek Vase Painting
* Kathryn Topper
* 35. Mythography and Roman Wall Painting
* Eleanor Leach
* 36. Retelling Greek Myths on Roman Sarcophagi
* Zahra Newby
* Section 5: Christian Mythography
* 37. Mythography and Christianity
* Jennifer Nimmo Smith
* 38. Byzantine Mythography
* Benjamin Garstad
* 39. Mythography in the Latin West
* Benjamin Garstad
* 40. Mythography and the Reception of Classical Mythology in the
Renaissance, 1340-1600
* Jon Solomon