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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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- 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 92Trends 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.
- Other Form:
- 9783110672824 PDF9783110672855 ePub
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9783110672794
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-6087