Greek mythography in the Roman world /

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By the Roman age the traditional stories of Greek myth had long since ceased to reflect popular culture. Mythology had become instead a central element in elite culture. If one did not know the stories one would not understand most of the allusions in the poets and orators, classics and contemporari...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cameron, Alan, 1938-2017
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Series:American classical studies ; no. 48.
Subjects:
Latin literature > Greek influences.
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Mythology, Greek > Historiography.
Mythology, Greek, in literature.
Littérature latine > Influence grecque.
Littérature latine > Histoire et critique.
Mythologie grecque > Historiographie.
Mythologie grecque dans la littérature.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Latin.
Civilization > Greek influences
Latin literature
Latin literature > Greek influences
Mythology, Greek, in literature
Mythographie
Mythen.
Letterkunde.
Klassieke talen.
Klassieke oudheid.
Informatiebronnen.
Overlevering.
Rome > Civilization > Greek influences.
Rome > Civilisation > Influence grecque.
Rome (Empire)
Römisches Reich
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An anonymous ancient commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses?
  • The Greek sources of Hyginus and narrator
  • Mythological summaries and companions
  • Narrator and his Greek predecessors
  • Historiae and source references
  • Bogus citations
  • Myth in the margins
  • Mythographus vergilianus
  • Myth and society
  • The Roman poets
  • Conclusion
  • App. 1. Lactantius placidus
  • App. 2. Three versions of Hyginus
  • App. 3. The text of the Narrationes
  • App. 4. Marginal source citations in Parthenius and Antoninus liberalis
  • App. 5. Source citations in the Origo Gentis Romanae
  • App. 6. Anonymus florentinus.

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