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OverviewGreek 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert L. Fowler (Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek, University of Bristol)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 18.40cm , Height: 5.40cm , Length: 25.00cm Weight: 1.590kg ISBN: 9780198147411ISBN 10: 0198147414 Pages: 848 Publication Date: 24 October 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. 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Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Part A: Mythological Commentary 1: Theogony 2: Pelasgians, Leleges, Dryopes, Arcadians 3: Deukalion 4: Deukalionidai 5: Aiolidai 6: Argonauts 7: Inachidai 8: Herakles 9: Herakleidai 10: Agenoridai and Early Thebes 11: Crete 12: The Theban Cycle 13: Atlantides 14: Pelopidai 15: Asopides 16: Attic Legend 17: Local Histories 18: The Trojan Cycle 19: The Migrations 20: 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 IndicesReviewsFourteen 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 * Judges comments, Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit 2014 * 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 Judges comments, Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit 2014 "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 * Judges comments, Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit 2014 *" Author InformationRobert Fowler is the Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek at the University of Bristol. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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