Early Greek Mythography
Volume 2: Commentary
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 October 2013
- ISBN 9780198147411
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages848 pages
- Size 250x184x54 mm
- Weight 1590 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Volume 2 is a detailed commentary on the texts of Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1, a critical edition of the twenty-nine authors of this genre from the late 6th to early 4th centuries BC. Volume 2 provides a mythological commentary of the original works, as well as a philological commentary on separate authors.
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Greek mythology is known to us from various artistic and literary sources. Of the latter, the poetic sources (such as Homer and tragedy) are familiar to many readers, but the prose sources are much less so. Early Greek Mythography: Volume 2 is a detailed commentary on the texts of Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1, which provided a critical edition of the twenty-nine authors of this genre of Greek prose from the late sixth to the early fourth centuries BC.
After a general introduction, this volume offers in its first part a mythological commentary on the texts, arranged according to the major topics of Greek mythology (the Trojan Cycle, Herakles, the Argonauts, etc.). The aim is to recover, so far as possible, what each writer said about the stories, with full consideration of their historical context and significance for Greek literature, mythology, and religion. The synoptic, topic-by-topic approach allows all the fragments pertinent to any given myth to be treated together, so that one can more easily identify variants and trends, and plot the history of the myth. The second part of the volume is a philological commentary on the separate authors, discussing their life, works, and contribution to the genre, as well as textual problems and non-mythological questions raised by individual fragments.
Fourteen years ago, Robert Fowler presented a collection of the fragments of Early Greek Mythography, giving us the outline and all the recoverable details of a lost continent of early Greek prose; we were grateful for an important and accessible volume. Now, he has followed up with a commentary that shows how important these lost treatises and their authors were for the beginnings and development of the Greek prose book, the appropriation and systematization of mostly local narratives, and the emergence of Greek historiography ... [it] leaves us with a truly three-dimensional view of the landscape we have lost ... It seems almost certain that "Fowler" will become yet another household name
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Part A: Mythological Commentary
Theogony
Pelasgians, Leleges, Dryopes, Arcadians
Deukalion
Deukalionidai
Aiolidai
Argonauts
Inachidai
Herakles
Herakleidai
Agenoridai and Early Thebes
Crete
The Theban Cycle
Atlantides
Pelopidai
Asopides
Attic Legend
Local Histories
The Trojan Cycle
The Migrations
Other Fragments
Part B: Philological Commentary
Akousilaos
Aethlios
Agias And Derkylos
Anaximander
Andron
Antiochos
Aristophanes
Armenidas
Charon
Damastes
Dei(l)ochos
Demokles
Epimenides Pseudepigraphus
Euagon
Eudemos
Eumelos
Hekataios
Hellanikos
Herodoros
Ion
Kreophylos
Menekrates
Metrodoros
Pherekydes
Polos
Simonides
Skamon
Skythinos
Xenomedes
Two Addenda to Volume 1
Corrigenda to Volume 1
Abbreviations and Bibliography
Indices
