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Host or parasite? : mythographers and their contemporaries in the Classical and Hellenistic periods

Title
Host or parasite? : mythographers and their contemporaries in the Classical and Hellenistic periods / edited by Allen J. Romano and John Marincola.
Publication
  • Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
  • Romano, Allen J.
  • Marincola, John
Description
190 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
Building upon the explosion of recent work on mythography, contributions to this volume direct attention to less frequently explored questions of how ancient poets, historians, and philosophers themselves adopted and adapted the work of mythographers. Study of the way that mythographers and their contemporaries take on positions of, alternately, "host" or "parasite" in relation to the other exposes the richness mythographic practice and the roles that mythographers played in the evolving Greco-Roman discourse of myth. From, among others, the seeds of mythographic discourse in Pindar and Plato, to the mythography of the Peripatics, the in-between mythography of Diodorus Siculus, and the "mythographic topography" of Pausanias, this volume invites a reappraisal of the role that mythography played at every stage of Greek thought about myth. Through contributions that explore both mythographers' distinctive style of studying myth to other contributions that focus primarily on the how and why of non-mythographers' use of mythographic techniques, what emerges is a picture of mythography that broadens our conception of mythography while at the same time inviting scholars to seek out more such echoes of mythographic discourse in the work of poets, historians, philosophers at large.
Series Statement
Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 92
Uniform Title
Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 92.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-163) and index.
Call Number
JFE 20-6087
ISBN
  • 9783110672794
  • 3110672790
LCCN
9783110672794
OCLC
1126282359
Title
Host or parasite? : mythographers and their contemporaries in the Classical and Hellenistic periods / edited by Allen J. Romano and John Marincola.
Publisher
Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 92
Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 92.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-163) and index.
Chronological Term
To 1500
Added Author
Romano, Allen J., editor.
Marincola, John, editor.
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9783110672824 PDF
9783110672855 ePub
Other Standard Identifier
9783110672794
Research Call Number
JFE 20-6087
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