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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783675603321

Autore

Cameron Alan <1938->

Titolo

Greek mythography in the Roman world / / Alan Cameron

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

0-19-770464-6

0-19-029109-5

1-4237-2065-2

1-280-42782-5

0-19-803821-6

1-60256-478-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 p.)

Collana

American Philological Association American Classical Studies ; ; Volume 48

Disciplina

470.9/15

Soggetti

Latin literature - Greek influences

Latin literature - History and criticism

Mythology, Greek - Historiography

Rome Civilization Greek influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. An Anonymous Ancient Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses?; Chapter 2. The Greek Sources of Hyginus and Narrator; Chapter 3. Mythological Summaries and Companions; Chapter 4. Narrator and His Greek Predecessors; Chapter 5. Historiae and Source References; Chapter 6. Bogus Citations; Chapter 7. Myth in the Margins; Chapter 8. Mythographus Vergilianus; Chapter 9. Myth and Society; Chapter 10. The Roman Poets; Chapter 11. Conclusion; Appendix 1. Lactantius Placidus; Appendix 2. Three Versions of Hyginus; Appendix 3. The Text of the Narrationes

Appendix 4. Marginal Source Citations in Parthenius and Antoninus LiberalisAppendix 5. Source Citations in the Origo Gentis Romanae; Appendix 6. Anonymus Florentinus; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; X



Sommario/riassunto

This title illustrates the importance of semi-learned mythographic handbooks in the social, literary, and artistic world of Rome. One of the most intriguing features of these works is the fact that they all cite classical sources for the stories they tell, sources which are often forged.